Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The High Mountain Court by A.K. Mulford

12 reviews

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

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

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

pauluszanna's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

 It is a fantastic magical world I got to know in this book! Fae rules the land of Okrith in four courts - however, 13 years ago it used to be five courts. Up until the North decided to erase the High Mountain Court from history and hunt down the red witches who belonged to it.
We follow Remy, a red witch trying to stay hidden in the backcountry so as to not draw attention to witch hunters and get herself killed. But a voice in her mind keeps getting louder to stop hiding and fight for her right to be free from sneaking around.

An opportunity to get revenge on the North arises she doesn't hesitate to take action and get back what has been stolen from her. Of course with a handsome prince as partner in crime.

 

One thing I considered giving it 3 stars is the whole Fated mate drama. Why does everyone have to be fated mates? Why do the characters have to say it every second sentence? 

 

I also read the novellas connecting to the Okrith series, I highly recommend reading them as the author suggests - and they are free to download from her website. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Grief and Death

liliana_b's review

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

4.0

Super derivative. Some word choices were odd. World building is okay. But boy am I a sucker for spicy fantasy. Spicy scenes are sparse but the tension between characters makes it. Bonus points for incredible inclusivity that didn’t feel forced and robotic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, and Sexual content

cassie12_21's review

adventurous funny 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

4.0

I enjoyed this book, and definitely recommend it to any fae book lovers. I liked that the heir to the south court existed outside of the gender binary. This book is spicy, their are a couple scenes, nothing extravagant though (unfortunately 😭) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Torture, Confinement, Violence, Alcohol, Child death, Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and War

ka_ke's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

This is a safe fantasy-romance to read. It’s kind of like if Throne of Glass and FBAA had a love child. The cast is diverse and filled with lovable characters. I would have liked to see more banter between Remy and Hale though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Genocide

Minor: War, Vomit, and Trafficking

frankieclc's review

5.0

right even tho the writing in this wasn’t perfect i still loved it and i cried so (pls dont judge me future frankie you are currently ill okay)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and War

finnickdeservedbetter's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

3.0

It initially feels like it's setting up to be an enemies to lovers but it was very much an insta-love which I'm not a fan of at all. Their relationship feels a flat and underdeveloped too. Because of that I felt no connection to the love interest. He's just kind of...there. Besides that, all of the plot twists were also very predictable. I guessed most of the big ones in the first few chapters which was kind of disappointing. I like unexpected reveals and nothing was unexpected. Getting a little nitpicky here, I didn't really like the main character that much. I didn't hate her but she felt very judgmental. Not in a "my life's in danger and I need to be wary of everyone way" but more so an "I'm better than everyone" way. It also seemed like she just instantly fell in love and started doing everything for a man. It wasn't the worst book I've ever read by any means but I definitely struggled to get it finished. I was really excited to read this book so I'm kind of bummed that I didn't like it as much as I thought.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Genocide, Confinement, Cursing, Torture, and War

Minor: Death of parent, Grief, and Child death