Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

53 reviews

_ren's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, and Bullying

Minor: Abandonment and Vomit

kal_el_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Gun violence

tainan's review

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Child death

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

khloereads86's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

As the first book in the series, it’s a solid introduction to the universe and good kick off, but not too much happens until the very end. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Terminal illness, Car accident, and Child abuse

passionatereader78's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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: Death of parent and Medical trauma

parfait52's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-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? No

4.25

This book was a lot of fun! The world-building and characters were compelling, and the plot kept me entertained. It was super predictable, but that's what you get for reading a retelling. I really enjoyed the pacing of this book, as it felt like something important was happening on almost every page. At times, there was so much happening that I would forget about an element, and then it would pop back up in the plot. I look forward to see where all these plot points are going to go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Car accident, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Ableism, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Xenophobia, Medical content, Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Classism, Genocide, Colonisation, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Trafficking, War, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Slavery, and Xenophobia

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

ariep's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Murder, Body shaming, Death of parent, Child abuse, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Classism, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

marissasa's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

Although I find less YA dystopian novels that I like as I get older, this one definitely held my interest with its unique sci-fi elements and the Lunar mutant race of people as antagonists. I thought this first entry into the series was well-written and the main character Cinder's emotions and actions felt true to her personality and her status as a misfit teenager who ends up questioning her entire identity, but as an adult reader you have to keep in mind the book's audience and just roll with it when she acts irrationally. The part I am most critical of in this book is the romance subplot, because it felt like their feelings for each other grew really fast despite having limited interactions in person, although maybe this can be chalked up to the way teenagers fall in love really fast in real life too. I liked the high stakes and danger that was ever-present throughout the book, and although some of the major plot points were predictable, they were written with ample build-up and the explanations following the reveals made sense for the story. I will continue this series and am curious to see how it ties in with the other fairytale-inspired sequels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Violence

rronnniii's review

adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Ableism, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Medical content, and Slavery

Minor: Violence, Gun violence, and War