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A noua casă by Leigh Bardugo

1273 reviews

emsavors's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

_meganrose's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark 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: Yes

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A slow start, but I enjoyed this. Thought I was going to be able to predict the ending and I was wrong. Good read for spooky season.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

frannienhi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder

arrr's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious

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Check the content warnings. It's great and also horror. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

sydoodle's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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REALLY REALLY REALLY hard to get into. i'm glad i did though. leigh bardugo and i have a weird relationship where i read all her books but im not sure what it is that keeps me there. alex's name being galaxy is insane. that was so long. time for the second one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Excrement, Alcohol

olorin85's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

kellirogue's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

jessb915's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

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I have been very into the dark academia trend and was excited for this book! Unfortunately, I had to dnf after a scene where a child is assaulted (see content warnings). It was a graphic description—unnecessarily so, in my opinion. I want to maybe give this book another chance, as so many people have gushed about it. I have heard there are other triggering events that might prevent me from returning to this one though. Just not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence

Moderate: Drug use

smolnives's review against another edition

1.5

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Read your trigger warnings! ⚠️ 
First three quarters were disappointing, the ending is atrocious??? 
Sorry but ... Feels like a waste of time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape

giul_emme's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious relaxing 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

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Bellissimooooo l'ho divorato, l'ho letto anche di notte invece di dormire. Esattamente my cup of tea, un dark academia fantasy ambientato nella contemporaneità, con magia, morte, omicidi, un caso da risolvere, una serie di fili sempre più intrecciati, personaggi ambigui, confini labili tra i "buoni" e i "cattivi". La trama è intricata ma solida, i personaggi ben costruiti, le atmosfere rese benissimo. Mi è piaciuto molto l'alternarsi delle trame temporali, tra l'inverno (il presente) e l'autunno (il passato, anche se passato da poco), che poi confluiscono nella sera della "sparizione" di Darlington, e da lì vanno avanti insieme. Anche il prologo ambientato a inizio primavera, quindi ancora più avanti, crea una forte aspettativa, il tutto ti tiene incollato e non ti fa perdere mai l'attenzione. Mi è piaciuto tantissimo il personaggio di Darlington, il meno presente in assoluto perchè nel presente è già sparito, ma anche la impacciata e riservata (ma non sempre) Dawes, che scopriamo poco a poco. Ma anche la nostra protagonista, così caparbia, così arrabbiata, spaventata, forte, fragile, così piena di emozioni con cui è facile empatizzare, anche quando sono molto forti.
Insomma, datemene con un cucchiaio. Non vedo l'ora di leggere il secondo. Bello bello bello. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Vomit