Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Raven King by Nora Sakavic

65 reviews

sabinehunter's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Sexual violence, Torture, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Physical abuse, and Rape

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

theincrediblesulk's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense fast-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

5.0

This is the darkest book in the trilogy and definitely not for the faint hearted. Please go through the trigger warnings before you attempt some pretty brutal themes. But if you can stomach them, you shall be rewarded by beautiful damaged characters doing their best to survive, going to therapy (eventually) and making something of themselves. The Foxes are the best found family and Wymack and Abby are the true MVP's of this story

I couldn't put it down

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Abandonment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

ojpodge's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

strength is really in the characters, it’s not a work of literature but the characters are really well developed in my opinion. 
also the juxtaposition of neil being this hardened runaway mafia kid and then him being like “ARE we friends?” and all the romantic subtext going over his head,,,, i just think he’s neat, peak ace experience right there

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Car accident, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm

katerina_l's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Torture, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Rape, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Drug use, Child abuse, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

silver_lining_in_a_book's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Blood, Drug use, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Death, Abandonment, Rape, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Death of parent

Moderate: Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Bullying

Minor: Sexism, Self harm, Grief, and Cursing

chaptereleven's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Deadnaming, and Cursing

bigpenis's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Torture, Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Murder, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, and Violence

diana314's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

4.5

THIS BOOK 😳😳🤯🤯🤯
I… I can’t wait to start the next one, that’s for sure. 
Look up the trigger warnings before hand, this book goes a bit (a lot) harder than the first one, so Dx
I don’t really know what to say, the story is insane, the characters go through a lot more this book than the first one. And we get to meet them a bit more. Insights on the lives of all characters, specially Kevin and Andrew’s, get the reader through the plot and make the twists make sense and be predicted just in time with Neil 🥺
Neil, poor Neil, boy needs a hug :((((

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Minor: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Gun violence

bisquii's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Most of the characters are terrible people, but lovable in their own way. 

PLEASE READ TRIGGER WARNINGS BEFORE READING! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Gore, and Confinement

I just put all the content warnings in the ‘Graphic’ section because this series basically has all of them in your face at one point or another. WARNING! This book shows a graphic sexual assault scene! Book 1 mostly implies it happening in a character’s past but in this book there is an actual scene! Please be careful!!

jenarae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Self harm