Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

56 reviews

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.75

The pacing was so slow at times but otherwise this is a terrific fantasy novel about love, friendship, and found family. Esther and Johanna are half sisters that have been separated for years. They're from a family of magical librarians that protect spell books. When Esther is attacked at the compound in Antartica she works at, she flees to escape her attackers. At the Library in Europe, Nicholas a Scribe and his hired bodyguard Collins discover family secrets that could be killer. This book weaves the world building so effectively into the characters and their motives. Its both very YA feeling and also insanely gory and dark but very well balanced. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death of parent, Medical content, and Misogyny

jane_bee28's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Physical abuse and Violence

shlymiller's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Violence, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, and Confinement

Minor: Gun violence

bookaholic84's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

4.5

Loved this book, I loved the unique magical system, the plot was amazing and some of the twists **WOW** 
Will definitely recommend this book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Emotional abuse

shannnne_reads_words's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Violence, Abandonment, and Death of parent

Minor: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Vomit, and Murder

reiowashere's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing slow-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

4.5

A little slow to start but so beautifully written that you don’t really notice. I love this magic system and really hope there’s another book in the works. I want more of the book magic and the possible chaos of freed magical talent. And the library becoming a school for the gifted, like the X-men!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Violence

maremi's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

fieldsandfeels's review against another edition

emotional mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

2.75

I didn’t dislike this book, it holds a lot of promise and the concept was interesting. HOWEVER the stakes didn’t feel high enough, the plot was predictable and slow, and the ending was abrupt. The plot and/or character development was not always moved along through actual storytelling, but by summing up conversations or actions that happened “off the page” in dialogue later on - this is a major pet peeve of mine. I enjoyed the premise and the story overall, but it fell short of expectations.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Violence and Gun violence

ijm358's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Murder and Violence

Minor: Torture and Kidnapping

ethuiliel's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

Love the characters, love the relationships (especially familial, but also friendship, romance, employer/employee, and more) between the characters and how they develop. The worldbuilding is fascinating as well. And the plot is... I'm not sure how to describe it. It slowly unfolds, I couldn't predict until near the end what the final climax would involve (unlike some books where the goal is clear just way of approaching it and whether the goal succeeds in the way the character intended are what are surprising). However, none of the several twists and turns hit me out of the blue, there were little hints throughout so I gradually saw things unfold.
The ending does leave me wanting more, but not in a "wait that's it?" sort of way. In some ways it's open ended about the future, but the arc of the story is resolved. I would love to see what happens next to these characters and this setting, but also the pieces that are open ended are fun to speculate on, not leaving me unsatisfied.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Kidnapping, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

I listed a lot of trigger warnings but I will say that I didn't find any of it to be treated in a problematic way