Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Wicked King by Holly Black

119 reviews

valorelei'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

the best book in the trilogy!!! long live our queen ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content and Alcoholism

shelvesofivy's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

I know that sometimes sequels suffer, but I personally found this one leagues above the first book in terms of tension, intrigue, and overall pacing. God these characters now have me in a chokehold <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Torture, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Self harm, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Drug use, and War

depictions of drowning

amazelan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

j'ai préféré ce second tome au premier, même si le début a été un peu long.
les intrigues et les retournements de situation sont mieux fait, tout n'était pas aussi facilement devinable que dans le premier tome.

les personnages sont également plusse intéressants,

même si je suis toujours très peu emballé.e par l'histoire entre Jude et Cardan

surtout l évolution de Cardan. Jude est également un peu plusse cohérente dans ses actions, plusse réaliste.

et la fin est très bien ficelée, elle donne envie de savoir le dénouement de tout ça.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

Moderate: Death

Minor: War

inthearchive's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Emotional abuse

sxndaze's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.0

a sequel that hits!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Violence, Confinement, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Blood

Minor: Vomit

annick's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

4.25

Love the pacy plot and the intrigue and the ethically flawed choices of most of the characters. I’m off to read the next book regardless of how late it is already tonight 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Physical abuse

rat_girly's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Holly Black got me good, Taryn still stinks 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, War, Confinement, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

thegreatelise's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

4.75

An absolute rollercoaster of emotions, this book was amazing, I almost could not put it down, I read it in only a week and I'm usually a slow reader so it says a lot, that while having classes.
I can clearly see why it is the favorite book of so many people in the trilogy, the third book would need a lot for me to like it more than this one.
I was really hooked and the multiple plot twist got me to audibly gasp.
Cardan became such an interesting character in this book, he already was interesting but now I see so much more complexity and depth to the character.
I am still troubled by a lot of things that took place in the book, it made me feel a lot of emotions throughout it.
I really can't wait to read The Queen of Nothing now.

 
Balekin is an incredible character in my opinion, he is an awful person and I hate him but he is so interesting and well written, I was actually shocked that Jude really killed him and the ending of the book was a true shocker, I can't wait to see what's gonna happen, I'm a bit worried that the third book might be boring since Jude is not in terrafae anymore but I have faith, I really want to see how Cardan is going to be as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Torture and Blood

kymboh78's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

Full review coming soon 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Misogyny, Death, War, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

catrose97's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

WOW. I thought the first book was good but the second gas surpassed it! I read this entire book in about 2 days or so of travel. So much of the story had me on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen next. Even times my mouth literally opened in surprise at certain parts I couldn’t believe just happened. This story is definitely darker than the first, with so much at play for the characters. You find out even more about each person and Jude becomes even more of a badass than she was in the first book (although she faces MANY difficulties and small defeats). The ending though has made me almost mad 😡. LIKE WHAT?! You know if you’ve read this book what I’m talking about. What the heck is going to happen in the third book?!?!?!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, and Confinement

Moderate: Abandonment, Bullying, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Torture and Sexual content