Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The King is Dead by Benjamin Dean

5 reviews

merah's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

couldn't put this down. 
kept trying to figure it out but was never sure. 

 
I was convinced Peter would turn out to be Grigor's dad. not entirely sure what to think about the true revelation of the not-actually-king revelation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Outing, Murder, Racism, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Infidelity, Alcohol, Gun violence, and Homophobia

Minor: Emotional abuse

further content warnings: - constant camera surveillance - unwanted sharing of personal information

-bomb threat

steffiraquel's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Racism, Hate crime, Outing, and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Stalking, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Abandonment, Confinement, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Toxic relationship

chadcloete's review

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Exactly my kind of book! Intrigue, gossip and a twist worth shouting about

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Outing, and Kidnapping

kaz_brekker1's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Racism

anniereads221's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

The way this book tackles issues that happen within the Royal family and you can see the parts in which connect to who. Those parts were done so well!! I also loved the mystery, i know this is not for everyone, as some found it easy to figure out. But i didn't and i wasn't bored by it and everytime i put it down was thinking about all the angles. I found this a quick fun read

Books like this show how bad i am at figuring stuff out. But i could see some things so easily.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Violence, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, and Racism

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