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Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

11 reviews

j_day's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Not my genre but still enjoyable enough. Predicted

Sylas being death and Percy being the murderer

from less than halfway through but this didn't spoil it too much - although I would've preferred not to have worked it out so quickly!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Blood, Suicide, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Alcohol, Sexism, Self harm, Grief, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Animal cruelty

deadbelle's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.75

My three favourite genres; Murder Mystery, Horror and Supernatural Romance all in one book.
The beginning is hard to get through and I must admit I struggled to like it at first as it does read very much as a blatant YA book. Its also predictable and cheesy at times, but once you get used to it the writing style is quite endearing and overall an easy and enjoyable read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse, Infidelity, and Animal death

phoenyxashes19's review against another edition

I can't get attached to female lead. She is the most annoying character. The author tries to make her look less bad by making her victims tyrannical and deserving to die. But it's a cheap way to make your MC look like a good and innocent person. I don't like her interactions with death either. I feel like Death could've been more mysterious but he got the personality of a 17 year old. Boring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

Moderate: Death

alisylvi's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Death, Medical content, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Classism, Vomit, Grief, and Sexual content

wasaaabii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, and Suicide attempt

saramcaps's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue meets The Haunted Mansion.

Dark & atmospheric gothic fantasy romance with paranormal elements, murder mystery, and magical realism. 

Signa can’t die and that along with her relationship with Death (written as a young man??) was pretty much the most interesting thing about her.  But, the plot was so twisty and even after the first book there’s still so many mysteries that I’m excited for the next one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Gore, Death, and Death of parent

lakinglaze's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I absolutely loved this book! I cannot wait for the second one to be released! Death was so perfect and the descriptions were so beautifully written. As long as you can handle some spirits, I would recommend this book to everyone! I’m such a sucker for a Hades/Persephone tale and Belladonna was even better than I had hoped! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Death, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicide, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

margaret_k30's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Blood, Abandonment, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, Murder, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Gore

norab99's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide and Vomit

billykmaguiree's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

A huge thank you to the team at Netgalley and Hodder and Stoughton for an electronic arc, in exchange for an honest review. 

In this gothic romance, Signa Farrow has one goal to stop Death from taking another life of someone close to her. When one of Signa’s relatives, Blythe falls ill with the same symptoms of her late mother, Signa’s determined to find out the truth about what is happening in Thorn Grove. As she hunts for answers, she teams up with Death himself to find out who is poisoning her cousin. 

This is the first work that I’ve read by Adalyn Grace and it wasn’t amazing, but also wasn’t terrible. Hit the middle mark of what I expected. 

The writing was okay. I liked the way that the characters were portrayed, especially Percy and Blythe but at times the plot felt like it lacked a lot of originality? I don’t know if it’s just me but there was points where I predicted what was going to happen, however the final plot twist was completely unexpected. Knowing Signa’s story with Death isn’t over makes me extremely hopeful for the next book ‘Foxglove.’ 

I do feel like Foxglove isn’t needed as an extension of the plot and things could’ve been wrapped up with an alternate ending. 

Another area where I felt the plot was lacking was the whole build up between Death and Signa. I’m sure it’s no shocker that they fell in love, but I found the whole thing kind of creepy? From the very first page we see Death is watching over Signa as a baby, aware of who she is and what she is capable off. To me personally, Death’s grooming of Signa is not romantic but odd and should not be glamourised. 

Overall: Belladonna by Adalyn Grace missed the mark for me and I am still conflicted about whether or not I’ll be picking up Foxglove when it comes out next year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit and Toxic relationship