Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

91 reviews

greymalkin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

What a fascinating world and magic system!  Metaphysic was a little too unclear/handwavy in places, and some character arc beats felt a little awkward, but overall, a very good read.  I look forward to reading the next one.   

I appreciated that many characters had shades of grey or at least were treated in ways that showed they were more complicated than just pure malicious evil (the exception being Malini's brother).  The reveal of the tragedy of the temple children and betrayal by the Elders is heartbreaking and infuriating, but believable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

piphux's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Violence, Child death, and Body horror

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Vomit

quail's review

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, and Child death

mostlyvoidpartiallystars's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

My biggest complaint about this book is that it isn't longer!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Murder, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Racism, Xenophobia, Confinement, Child death, and Emotional abuse

bagel_z's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Sexism, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Pregnancy, Homophobia, Vomit, and Sexual content

jessiereads98's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Excellent high fantasy and excellent feminist storytelling. This is how you create a feminist story without monologues that seem out character or long bits of exposition that are discordant with the tone and atmosphere of the story. I loved the world, politics, and magic of this book. The characters are complex and I do find it difficult at times to fully understand some of them. I may not be picking up inferences I’m meant to. I do find the romance between the two main characters to be a bit underdeveloped. I found it difficult to follow the development of chemistry between the characters and progression of the relationship. It seemed as if we were told they were here in the relationship and had these feelings for each other without really seeing that develop. It wasn’t out of the realm of believability though and did not really take away from the overall story for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Murder, Violence, Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Colonisation, Grief, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Death of parent, War, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Physical abuse

laurajeangrace's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Confinement, Death, and Sexism

Moderate: Pregnancy, Child death, War, Xenophobia, and Torture

hwaters95's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, War, Child death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

karcitis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Grief, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Death of parent, Child abuse, Classism, Kidnapping, Vomit, and Alcohol

little_rainbow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Colonisation, Violence, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Xenophobia