Reviews tagging 'Death'

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

54 reviews

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Torture, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Sexual content, Medical content, and Trafficking

little_rainbow's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Torture, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

marzreadz2's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, and War

scarlett_f's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and War

doodeedoda's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

le3713's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Unevenly paced story that nevertheless pulled me into an imaginative and richly described world. The last section left me needing more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and War

Moderate: Slavery and Torture

donatio's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

So... overall I liked the book.
I liked the characters as well as the world-building but some things didn't sit right with me. 

I'm a big animal friend and I'm intrigued by the concept of opposites, how something cannot exist without an opposite, but the depiction here failed sometimes. The fact that the angels basically colonised the world of the chimaera often fades into the background and the chimaera are still often described as the villain(monsters) because the angels make no appearance except for Akiva's "rightness" and so on; the balance it was probably supposed to be... Is just not there. Even though it is said that the chimaera are intelligent and feeling beings this behavior isn't shown, there is no tender love in Eretz in the chimaera capital described. That makes them seem cruel even though the angels are the "real" enemies. 
Furthermore I had a problem with some comments made in the book I can't recall specifically now and the fact that everyone seems to be beautiful (ly thin) in some way upsets me.

Still the story managed to draw me in, to care about the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Torture

whatsophsreading's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Abandonment

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Genocide, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Sexism, Slavery, and Torture