Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

63 reviews

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark lighthearted sad tense medium-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

4.0

SPOILER SUMMARY

Main 2 characters priya and malini
Proya ex Temple child but they burned. Malini Princess exiled by brother. Priya maid servant to malini, they fall in love, while malini keeps is poisoning her, temple children used to be magic from the deathless waters, only priya knows how to find. Priya breaks malini put to go help her good brother defeat her bad brother, but good brother doesnt want to be king, prince rao has a prophecy that malini will be empress, meanwhile priyas brother ashok is leading a questionable rebellion in which theyre all dying and her sister bhumika leaves her husband to die and has a baby, priya , bhumika and ashok make a truce and go to deathless waters together to save their country ashoke dies, priya can now cure the rot while bhumika rules the country.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Murder, War, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Genocide

third_bookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Colonisation

Moderate: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Minor: Terminal illness

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

oh i adored everything about this world. the nature-magic, the city states, the religions, and the yaksa are all such interesting concepts and so well crafted. 

Priya, Malini and Bhumika’s characters really left an impact on me, they’re such excellently written characters with very interesting journeys. i will absolutely be reading book 2 and from where things left off i already know i’m gonna love it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Genocide, Body horror, Drug use, and Misogyny

Minor: Alcohol, Abandonment, Child abuse, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, and War

solarel's review against another edition

hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

While I really enjoyed the concepts and characters, the pacing was very slow. It meandered along an inevitable path, and was still pleasant to read, but took me a long time to fight through it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, and Pregnancy

kilic's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense 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: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Violence, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, and War

poetry_shaman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Child abuse, Murder, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

alysounbookish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Blood

midnightgremlin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Blood, Colonisation, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Physical abuse, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Racism

Minor: Homophobia

reinedespres's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Body horror

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, War, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abandonment

misoreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-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

3.5

WOMEN—
Tasha Shuri has written some of the strongest, wittiest and most morally grey women I've read and I love them for that. Bhumika, Malini and Priya are amazing characters and hard carry the story on their wise, fearless, ambitious shoulders. I love them so very much and would literally die for them 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Murder, Sexism, and Homophobia

Minor: Child abuse and Schizophrenia/Psychosis