Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo

18 reviews

infjkiki's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, Gore, and Child death

Moderate: Bullying

dawntin's review against another edition

dark fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Child death

emily_mh's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

3.5

This was an atmospheric and entertaining short story. It was interesting seeing a more in-depth view of the Darkling's backstory. However, the narrative seemed confused as to what it was trying to say. The resolution and "character development" was supposed to be about Grisha being persecuted, but the narrative itself backgrounded this topic in favour of showing Grisha infighting and the danger the Darkling was in due to being an Amplifier. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Misogyny, Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Sexism, Bullying, and Physical abuse

Minor: loss of a loved one, eugenics, drowning, self-injury

breedawnwriter's review against another edition

2.5

The Demon in the Wood is an intriguing short story, but it felt kinda mediocre to me, so I’m giving it 2.5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Blood

nikkileyman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

shorter than i expected, but i appreciated some action happening right away in something leigh wrote :D

very cool backstory, this gives more insight into how alexander came to be who he is.

although i hate alexander more than any other character, i cannot help but wonder what would´ve happened to him had the people in his life been kinder to him. what fate would´ve met him then?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Bullying, and Death

aklovekorn's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, and Bullying

allym's review

dark fast-paced

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

3.75

though his methods were bad, this really helps clear up the darkling’s motivations and reason for why he did all of the things he did in the series. all he wanted was to be safe :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

mishshell's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

loonieslibrary's review

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

It was very interesting to learn more about The Darkling’s tragic past. Leigh is not justifying his actions, but helping the reader understand them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Gore, and Murder

mindsorceress's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death