Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

10 reviews

melani_e4's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

loooooved the whole book. Amazing characters. Amazing plot. Amazing writing style. I really enjoyed this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Classism, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Misogyny

shoni's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective 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

I have had this book so long that I did forget about it, but I regret not picking this up earlier. This had everything I love. PLUS DRAGONS. I love dragons. I want dragons. Everything about this fed into everything I wanted. 

I did think the final battle could have been better.

I wish we got to see more of how her dad died, how stupid jansk died. I wanted to read more about the blood, the death, the struggles, the hesitancy of killing the dragons i wanted more of that.

  I didn't mind but it still felt like something is missing. But a badass woman, who will not hesitate to cut a bitch is what I'm here for, and if I haven't mentioned DRAGONS. like I don't think I need to say anything else.
 
Also the romance. ugh i love it.

Torwin is everything. I love him, i want a torwin in my life. I love everything between their tension and everything. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY FINALLY KISS UGH IT WAS EVERYTHING I WANTED. ALSO WHEN TORWIN WAS CALLING ASHA BEAUTIFUL AND PRETTY AND ALL SUCH THINGS AND SHE DIDN'T BELEIVE HIM I FELT THAT AND IT HURT SO MUCH AND UGH

 

Overall I did enjoy it, it had an amazing world building which I want more of, it had characters and their internal struggles, it had a romance that i was dying for, and it had dragons. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Slavery, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Torture

Minor: Sexual assault

minbyrnes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Slavery

bookreadingelf's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Animal cruelty

Minor: Sexual violence

starlessnights's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Moderate: War, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

lorereads'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, and Torture

rubyduarte's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, and Slavery

Moderate: Death of parent

Forced engagement

Forced marriage

effectordinary's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Nothing was glaringly off about the plot of this book or the characters, but I couldn’t tell you any of the characters favorite foods or even guess what they might be. Felt like it should’ve been so much more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Sexual assault

willemke's review against another edition

adventurous

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

Originally read this in 2018, no idea why my review has disappeared from GR since it's still on TSG (or not I guess)
Anyways. Original rating was 5 stars. My reread would be 4 or 4.5 I think, just with my reading tastes these days! I still adore Kristen Ciccarelli's writing and I think it's only gotten better! I'd still recommend this book too based on it's tropes. 

Fun buddy read to reread!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Death of parent, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Violence

Dragon death, injury being stitched up