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emilywemily6's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Abandonment, Ableism, Blood, Murder, Torture, Violence, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail
nils_0's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, War, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Torture, Abandonment, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Violence, Cannibalism, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping
peggy_racham's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: War, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Physical abuse, Violence, Bullying, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Child death
siglerbooknook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Child death, Bullying, Blood, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Death, and Slavery
pauliina_thebookaholicdreamer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
The Lives of Saints is exactly that but it also includes beautiful illustrations throughout.
This is a book that would be nice and spooky to listen to as read by someone else in a small wooden cabin in the middle of the woods. It achieves the spooky-fairytale vibe pretty well!
However, many of the fairytales are <i> very </i> short and they end all of a sudden. I felt that most stories needed more work to make them intriguing to their full potential. We are given very little time to get know to any of the saints and then it's difficult to be strongly affected when awful things happen.
Let's talk about the awful things. This book has a bunch of <b> trigger warnings: </b> violence, gore, bullying, starvation, mutilation, death, drowning, self-harm inc cutting. And probably other things too!
The Lives of Saints is supposed to be a children's book in the Grisha universe and I don't really see that here. Most of the stories very almost comically violent with all the awful things happening to everyone. I felt like the violence was forced in to make sure that the reader understands how rough it is to grow up in the Grisha universe with all these death-filled children's tales etc etc. It was a bit too much and the violence didn't add much to the fairytales, I started to expect that everyone will die by the end.
Graphic: Violence, Self harm, Gore, and Bullying