Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

The Child Thief by Brom

3 reviews

venti's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

epic af

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Violence, Death, Rape, War, Colonisation, Body horror, Child abuse, Torture, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Confinement, Cursing, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, and Police brutality

really had to go down the list for these warnings LOL not sure if i missed any but you get the gist

tamagotchisen's review

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, Sexual content, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Child death, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Violence, War, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Rape

mrx99's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

The worldbuilding and art was awesome. I liked the story but even though a lot happens the book feels very slow. So I stopped reading and started the audiobook (which was amazing). The book wasn’t my favourite, because the pace felt weird and it didn’t grip me. There were also some holes in the story for example the mist destroys weapons like guns and bomb but at the first battle the Volk of Avalon was shot down by bomb
I am not sure how I feel about the ending. The „not happy ending“ is great as a teaching moment for Peter and his willingness to follow the lady blindly even if the cost is the live of all the devils. The book should have ended with him crying and remembering all the children lost in his campaign, but no the next second he’s laughing and happy because he has the power of the horned one. The captains perspective and his love for Danny was my favourite book and I which we would get to know how their future looks like.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Slavery, Torture, Physical abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Cannibalism, Classism, Cursing, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Rape, and Sexual harassment