Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

9 reviews

calicat42's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Violence, Grief, Physical abuse, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Death of parent

cecinamo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

It was an incredible story! I read the Six Swans fairy tale as a kid, so this book was somehow quite nostalgic to me xD. The main character is absolutely amazingly written. The side characters too! I especially liked

Raikama! I thought her story was so interesting and the relationship between her and Shiori was so cute ;^;. It was a nice twist to make the stepmother kind instead of evil like in the original fairytale

. Also Seryu was robbed ;-; He was such a cool character and we didn’t see enough of him.. I liked Takkan, but he seemed a little to perfect… Would definitely recommend this book tho!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Blood, Abandonment, Grief, Misogyny, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: War

lotoblanco's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Slavery, and Gaslighting

Minor: War

lisyasversion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring 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: Abandonment

filipa_maia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

First of all, how beautiful is this cover?

I really enjoyed this book. It was a slow start for me but, when the story really started to gain traction I got completely addicted. Great world building, amazing scenarios, character with such a rich and interesting background - these are the things we can enjoy when reading this book. I love Shiori strength, the way that she overcame everything that was thrown in her way. Even when everything was hopeless.

I can't wait for the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, Confinement, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Death of parent, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

monniebiloney's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This book really reminded me of the movie BRAVE (Disney)
It's definitely its own thing, but it is weirdly similar on the bases of it's exciting insidient.

If you liked Brave, you will LOVE Six Chrimson Crains.

I love that I didn't read the back of the book, cuz some of my favorite plot points that grabbed me by surprise were greatly spoiled on the back of the book.

So please, just read the first page to see if you'd like the book 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Body horror, Bullying, Blood, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Murder, Abandonment, Slavery, War, Grief, and Emotional abuse

anjasfairylights's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This one really took me in. What a story, what a world, what awesome characters. I want to read the second part of this duology asap, but at the same time I feel like I need a break for at least a week. Do you know this feeling? I‘m just so amazed, very impressed and totally invested in this story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: War and Emotional abuse

rensreading's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

when people said it gave them studio ghibli vibes, they really weren’t kidding! still, i had my doubts so it kind of caught me off guard how right these people were about it.

it took me a hot sec to figure out which area of asia this story was drawing inspiration from though. i think i may have just been confused by the studio ghibli comments but idk. the elements of chinese folklore became more clear only once someone pointed them out to me so im probably just slow. the red string of fate was a dead giveaway for sure though.

the plot was okay. it took a little too long to start in my opinion and certain details were brought up in the very end to try and link them as an explanation for why the beginning was so long but it still felt clunky. it seemed like lim had a plan™️ for her ending but didn’t execute it smoothly enough to make sense. there was just a lot of rushing at the end, which i get because its the end but the change of pace was weird and kind of unnecessary too. slow and steady wins the race after all.

i didn’t really care for our mc or how she seemed to enrapture two boys. the romance was just meh to me. it felt like it was missing something but i honestly couldn’t tell you what it was. probably just plain old chemistry. either way, i thought there would be more emphasis on her brothers since they’re the whole reason she’s trying to break the curse anyway but, sadly, we get to learn very little about them. instead we get a good chunk of the book about someone else’s sibling instead :)) how fun :)))

all in all, this was an okay read. there definitely were some overdone cliches and hiccups in the plot but it wasn’t enough to make me dislike this book either.

i didn’t care for the random power-ups or how quickly the stepmother was forgiven though.

all of that should have been expanded on for sure.

because of all of the above, i give this 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Confinement, Cursing, Medical trauma, Violence, Animal death, Death, Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

Minor: War

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Torture, Child abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Kidnapping, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

Death by poisoning