Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Vrania šestka by Leigh Bardugo

95 reviews

strixy16's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Slavery

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Death, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Trafficking

kissmelicia's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

littletiramisu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

There is no better character than Kaz. Don‘t waste your time trying to change my mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Addiction, Blood, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Rape, and Mental illness

harmonique's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Violence, Mental illness, and Ableism

a_dara_ble's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

5.0

I don't remember where I got the recommendation for this, but it sat on my shelf for a long while not because I didn't want to read it, but because I knew when I did finally read it I'd be obsessed. My only regret was that I read it at work so I couldn't just hide in a corner and devour it in an afternoon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Slavery

rowanrelph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Drug abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Violence, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Trafficking, Slavery, Abandonment, and Torture

notyourhana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Murder, Violence, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Cursing and Trafficking

imaginary_space's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.0

I was told this was not really YA, but I guess it still was too much YA for me. That's not the book's fault, though. So if you generally like YA, I suspect you will like this book a lot more than I did.

What I liked:

• The world building - European inspired, plus a fantasy story set (mainly) in a big city, that's a nice diversion from the majority of books in the genre. If you know any more books, don't hesitate to point me in their direction!
• Also, I liked the Grisha magic.
• I like stories about ragtag bands/found families doing things (okay, crime) together.
• It was so well written that I found the plot interesting and wanted to know not so much what would happen next, but how it would happen.
• I started to appreciate Inej and Kaz once I stopped thinking about their age and just embraced how utterly, unapologetically edgy they are. Teenage me would have probably loved them.
• Jesper is quite the cinnamon roll, and I enjoyed him as a character. He was the most believable and most interesting (and layered) of the bunch.
• There was some entertaining dialogue.

What was meh:

• Even though interestingly written, the plot didn't hold any major surprises.
• Nina and Matthias were annoying, even more so because there wasn't ever any real doubt about the outcome. Also, very tropey romance story.
• Yes, growing up in a slum ages people beyond their years. Sure, I get that. But at times it was just too unbelievable, especially with the way they talked sometimes.
• Even more unbelievable that Kaz managed to have this badass mysterious reputation for being a criminal genius when apparently every other major player in that city was an adult. I would have gotten it if the gang members in the slums were all roughly about the same age. But like this it makes very little sense.
• Towards the end, I was pretty annoyed by the twentieth "... BUT they had seen it coming!" surprise. Especially since there was very few foreshadowing.
• There was some pretentious edgy dialogue. It's a fine line.

Overall, I wasn't too emotionally engaged, but I did enjoy it enough to probably read the second book in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Classism, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture

athenaminerva13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Ableism, Addiction, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Trafficking and Torture

nefie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

5.0

As somebody who rarely picks this kind of books I have to say that i was more than pleasantly surprised. The writing was so good and it almost never felt forced. I absolutely loved all the main characters and im already  emotionally invested. I don't know if I could ever reccomend this enough. It has been one of the best reads of 2022 so far:) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, and Slavery

Minor: War, Animal cruelty, and Animal death