Reviews tagging 'Death'

The High Mountain Court by A.K. Mulford

22 reviews

haleyrayreads's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Death, and Misogyny

miagic_tome's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book was described to me as "ACOTAR but with queer and POC representation." And yeah, that's pretty close. Enjoyed the world building, though I definitely cringed at the writing and dialogue at times. Still though, zoomed through it and will eagerly continue the series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Death, Grief, and Trafficking

flora_fcrp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

An amazing book! Made me cry....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, War, Slavery, Suicide, and Trafficking

puria's review

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

This book was a fun and entertaining read for me for almost 90% of it. Remy's "secret" in my opinion was heavily hinted at throughout the book and therefore not much of a surprise for me, or really anyone even in the book at the end. All the characters around her had guessed as much from the good guys to the bad. The climax is what I didnt enjoy, the fight felt rushed, convenient and frustrating for me. It didnt do the entire book justice.
I will probably continue the series.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

allymurphy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The pacing and dropping of very important things gave me whiplash and I could see the “plot twists” a mile away, but I still had a good time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Vomit

dalek_caan's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book made me feel a lot of emotions. It was definitely a can't-put-this-book-down kind of book. I will definitely be reading the next one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, War, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

zias's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

I wanted to like this book but there were a few things that made it difficult. Namely, the amount of times “that” or “those” used to describe things like “those dark eyes” or “that warm hand” was really odd. I also found it off-putting how often someone was referred to as male/female. I don’t read many fae books or books with a fated mate trope, but Remy and Hale’s relationship felt shallow and that it relied on the fated mate trope.

However, I do really appreciate the world building, as well as some of the diversity, between the

non-binary

character and the amount of same sex relationships. I wished there was more focus on building out the magic system because after the reveal, it felt like it wasn’t as important to Remy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent

aseel_reads's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This was sold to me as: a properly diverse acotar novel and it pretty much delivered. Very easy to read, fun times, not too deep or profound 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child death, Genocide, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

raypaws's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: War

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Genocide

Moderate: War, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Vomit