Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan

5 reviews

fran's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Excrement, Alcoholism, Death, Body horror, Child death, Medical content, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Grief, Kidnapping, and Sexism

foxwish's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

Starts out as a murder mystery, which quickly becomes an empire ending threat. Justice Konrad is a very mysterious character and as the story is told from the POV of his apprentice/clerk Helena as an older woman we get to see his character shift and what seems to be the start of a moral decline from an outside POV. Helena herself is very dull and a victim of insta-love unfortunately, she has no idea what she wants in life, her streetrat orphan background is barely relevant to her character, and for some reason older Helena stands by her insta-love as her "first true love". Sir Radomir develops into a wonderfully charismatic character by the end of the book and the climax makes for a compelling start to this trilogy. I will be reading the sequel and hoping for better characterisation for Helena.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Cultural appropriation, Death, Confinement, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, and Child death

dogearedbooks's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent and Confinement

Minor: Violence, Torture, Rape, Kidnapping, War, Grief, and Sexual assault

dani_reis's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

I found the first 50% kind of boring. I had to reread the synopsis to see if I even knew what I picked up.
50-70% was where the plot really picked up.
The end was intense. I don't think I liked how the narrator is sometimes talking to the reader like a story is being given about the past, but then present tense for the majority of the book. It happened few enough that I can look past it. I am looking forward to the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

death of animal is with an unattached animal to the reader. It is graphic.

prynne31's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

It was well-written. Just not sure I'm the target audience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Death, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Torture, Colonisation, Confinement, Classism, Child death, Animal death, Medical trauma, Grief, Excrement, and Death of parent

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