Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

24 reviews

gagereadsstuff's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Torture, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Grief

nefariousbee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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

5.0

What a book. I don't even know what else to say. Definitely one of the best high fantasy books I've read, if not *the* best.
The world building, the characters, the writing, all spectacular. There's quite some naiveté to it all, which I thought I would mind, but I did not, actually. It's satisfying to see the characters and the plot not to feel like they need to be down to Earth. I enjoyed it very much.
I think I'm gonna go and pre-order the next book in the series now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Colonisation

le_mur's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Slavery, Police brutality, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual content

gurofl's review against another edition

adventurous slow-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

3.75

I liked it in the start, but after a while I lost a bit of interest. There's little development of the plot in the middle. 
I liked the character Anoor, the start of the relationship between the two main characters, the quest, and that the society is very diverse (both when it comes to identity and sexuality). And I would be interested to find out what happens next with the empire and the politics if I hadn't been so annoyed with the characters feeling like they're teenagers when they are 20-22. 
It feels like this borders between adult and young adult fantasy. What I didn't like: the characters are a bit flat, things become very melodramatic at times, and the characters' mood swings a lot very fast. 
The ending was quite interesting, but the juvenile feel of things is putting me off continuing with this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Colonisation

Moderate: Drug use and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Fatphobia, Genocide, Racism, Police brutality, and Kidnapping