Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Truth and Other Lies by Lyra Wolf

8 reviews

mnsanchez3748's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Murder, Violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Blood

jennyshelby's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

Entropy is inevitable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Torture, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

mythian's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

that_chick26's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

leligavi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, and Body horror

dragon_ex_machina's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Toxic friendship, Torture, Pregnancy, Murder, Gore, and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcohol and Death of parent

annabelle's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

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

3.5

What a ride! I’m pretty sure this is the first norse mythology retelling I’ve read and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The story follows Loki and the events that lead to Ragnarok. It’s a bit of a set up book, but it does a great job of keeping you invested. There are some great moments between characters and a captivating plot that had me flying through the book. And it even managed to make me SO upset at the end even though I knew what was going to happen!! I love that a book can make me feel so much even with prior knowledge of the myth. 

I loved Loki and Sigyn, and I liked them together. Their relationship is central to the plot, but I wouldn’t say that the development of their romance is the focus. The story is more about what their relationship means and leads to. I thoroughly enjoyed their moments together and they are an iconic couple. 

One caveat I’ll make is that there isn’t a ton of world building present. The gods, the worlds, and the magic are not explained in detail, so it would be best to have some previous knowledge of norse mythology before diving into this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Violence

rochelle_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

꧁꧁Book Review꧂꧂

Devilish. Retelling. Devastating.

The story follows Loki, God of Mischief, when he awakens in a church after being imprisoned for 500 years and retells his heartbreaking story of love, loss and plans for revenge.

•°¯`•• Spoiler Alert! ••´¯°•

I absolutely adored Loki’s character: his sarcastic wit, his arrogance and his fierce protectiveness of Sigyn were a perfect combination for me. I loved watching his character arc as his love for Sigyn changed him. And I do love a villain, it’s just such a shame his villain origin story came at such a high cost. Her death was traumatic and gave me serious Hercules and Megara vibes. 

My only frustration (and I still don’t think that’s the right word) is that this story has kept very close to original Norse stories, including the god’s physical appearances. Now, I’m a millennial obsessed with Marvel so I can’t see Loki as anyone but dark-haired Tom Hiddleston, never mind a mane of flowing ginger hair! But this is a personal preference and didn’t take away from the story.

Overall, I loved this retelling of Loki and I can’t wait to see what havoc he wreaks on the world for revenge in book 2!

Rating: 🐍🐍🐍🐍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Child death