Reviews tagging 'War'

Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier

20 reviews

tacochelle's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious 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

This was a really cool ya fantasy, with a world inspired by medieval Europe during the black death. The mystery that drives the plot was really interesting, though I'm a little iffy on how it wraps up. The mc Cas has the ability to see and speak to ghosts, and I wish it was used more in the story. It was never fully explained, and with a plot focused on who is killing those closest to the queen, I thought we'd see Cas' power in action more, but it didn't, really.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Torture

Minor: War, Confinement, and Child death

tegzy95's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Violence

Minor: War

valpuri's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Blood, Confinement, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Torture, and Xenophobia

Minor: War, Homophobia, Rape, and Vomit

yomireads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

A perfect YA Fantasy standalone. Set in the political aftermath of a plague that sweeps across a continent, yet so much more than that. Assassination plots, ghosts, scenes of trauma and recovery; this is a thrilling story with compelling characters propelling the plot along every step of the way.

A lost price returned home with a dark past lurking over his shoulder, and secrets both behind and ahead of him for him to keep or uncover.

A princess with a whole lot of spunk, and none of the shirked responsibility often found in YA heirs.

And supporting cast that hooked me from the outset.  

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, War, Infertility, and Vomit

tmdreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed this book. It’s a linear plot and I read it quickly.  Not an overly complex plot but sometimes that’s just what you what. It has what I like in a YA fantasy, what I would consider a romp, good action with a couple twists and slow burn romance. 

It’s somewhat gory so if that turns you off keep that in mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Murder, Violence, Death, and War

Moderate: Excrement, Animal death, Grief, Murder, and Death

Minor: Infertility, Death of parent, and Medical trauma

aellwy's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Torture

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and War

dvnjii's review

dark mysterious reflective tense

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Child death, Torture, and Terminal illness

Minor: War

shannnne_reads_words's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Violence, Death, and Murder

Minor: Infertility, Death of parent, Vomit, Blood, Child death, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, and War

misterwisp's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

It's a satisfying fast paced read with good characters. It was compelling enough to stay up for. Plague is part of the story so you might expect this to be really dark but it came across more as melancholy but not in a depressing way. There is somehow a hopeful centre to it all that felt genuine and not naive. It's good! You should read it :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Confinement, War, Abandonment, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Murder, Animal death, Torture, and Pregnancy

bookish_purrsuits's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Slavery