Reviews tagging 'Death'

Ledge by Stacey McEwan

22 reviews

aurora4847's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Sexual content, Violence, Confinement, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Misogyny

Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Torture, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

brysonsmommie84's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

It’s only January, but I’ve already read ten books this year and this is the best one by far. To the point I haven’t been interested in the books I have tried to read afterwards… 

I cannot wait to read Chasm, which is book two in this series. (Hurry Library, I don’t own this one!) This is not what I was expecting, but I throughly enjoyed every minute. 

I have been following the author Stacey on TikTok since the beginning and have been so excited to read this novel. It reminded me the entire time of the 1976 movie Logan‘s Run, with Jenny Agutter and Michael York. Just add in bat-like people swooping in to steal away the people that are destined for the carousel or in this case Iskra and set it all on a snowy/icy ledge. If you like Hunger Games or Divergent, but for adults, this is for you. 

It had some smutty scenes I was not expecting, at all. Out of two hundred and seventy-one pages, I believe it’s ten to twelve pages throughout the book, roughly three percent. The first scene was pretty early into the book. So, if romantasy is your thing, there is probably enough, this only the first book in the trilogy. 

The quote from page 207 is my only true complaint about this book. Ryon and other glacians, but mostly him, use the word girl repeatedly. Can’t stand the word…

Just a few quotes I don’t want to forget:

Page 74

“The cold is not alive, but it might as well be fangs and claws, for the havoc in can wreak.”

Page 135 

“I do not need you.”

“Ah, but wanting is not the same as needing, as you so perfectly illustrated tonight.”

Page 142

“It is my aim in life to leave an impression and I don’t much care for ensuring it be a good one.”

Page 207

“You will refrain from calling me girl.” 

Amused, he gazes at her from beneath his eyelashes. “Or what?”

“Or I might decide I don’t want your hands anywhere near me.”

Page 216

“ When I first saw you, I thought you were an intolerable, arrogant maniac with a smart mouth and a pretty face. My mind is unchanged.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Confinement, and Sexual harassment

typedtruths's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.75

this was genuinely terrible but i had a lot of fun. just don't ask me to explain the world-building because it was paper thin

▷ Representation: Ryon (mc) is brown; Esra (sc) is nonbinary & uses he/him pronouns; minor f/f side couple.

Blog • Trigger Warning Database • StoryGraph

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Child abuse, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

➸ Trigger warnings for slavery, attempted rape, sexual harassment, blood and gore depiction including mentions of mutilation, decapitation, death of a grandmother recounted, death of a mother from suicide, multiple deaths from falling off a cliff or from a great height, imprisonment, murder, axe, sword and dagger violence, disappearance and presumed death of a child/sister, loss of autonomy (magical), mass death/massacres mentioned, poverty and food scarcity.

ceredonia's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

Not a bad first entry in a series. The FMC is mostly insufferable but slowly got better. The romance sort of came out of nowhere and didn't add much to the plot. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, Violence, Blood, War, Slavery, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent and Cursing

emmacartlidge's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

paintergirl4ever's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Death, Cursing, Colonisation, and Blood

ashleynp24's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. I felt the action moved along the plot well, and the characters are fun. The romance is a big  factor in the book as well, so watching that develop was expected but still a fun read.

I loved seeing a strong woman as the protagonist and how her relationships evolved due to her nature. A reason I did give it a 4 and not higher was I wish the book was told in her POV, not a 3rd person POV. I feel if it was from hers, we’d get to know a bit more about her relationship with Ryon, and her thoughts regarding her experiences more. I do enjoy their relationship and the development of it, but I think it could be a deeper connection between them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Violence, War, Classism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Slavery, Suicide, and Torture

kat1105's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Kidnapping, Animal death, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Blood, Classism, War, Alcohol, Body horror, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, and Sexual violence

lycheeteareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Murder, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Child death

meat_muffin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I loved this. Absolutely loved it. Blasted through, sad it’s over, am D Y I N G that the next one won’t be out for months - and on that cliffhanger?! How very dare (but I still adore you, Stacey!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Racism, Classism, Slavery, and Colonisation

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Cursing

Minor: Sexual harassment, Confinement, and Alcohol