Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Het Meisje en de Alchemist by Sara Holland

6 reviews

gandalf_a's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Alcohol, Confinement, Violence, and Slavery

anjasshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Blood, Confinement, Classism, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol and Fire/Fire injury

majakrmer's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Grief

doodlingstars's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

I wanted to get myself lost in a fantasy world and this did it for me :)
The time being this world’s form of currency really grabbed my attention while browsing the library. And while this world’s time’s value confused me throughout the book, it’s still interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, and Blood

zoepagereader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The ending of this book read like a bad soap opera. There were way too many plot twists and, I’m sorry, but I’m so done with the secret twin twist. The beginning and middle of this book were excruciatingly slow, and only like one thing happened during the first 200 pages. I only stuck with it because the whole time as currency seemed interesting. This just wasn’t for me. 2.75⭐️

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

egurgens's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I greatly enjoyed this book, but I feel that the author fell too deeply into stereotypes. However, I do have to say that I was not expecting the plot twist at the very end. 

Loved the character development, loved the idea, but feel that it wasn’t executed as well as it could have been. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Bullying, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder