Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The King's Men by Nora Sakavic

34 reviews

katerina_l's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Violence, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

alyssadavis's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.5

Neil had been doing one stupid thing after another all year long and this has turned into one of the best years of his life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Death, Grief, Murder, and Self harm

the_othersidewv's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

AAAA NO LO PODÍA SOLTARR me pasó con toda la trilogía 🥺🥺

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Gore, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

diana314's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

It’s honestly a very nice ending for the trilogy. The characters arcs wrap up nicely, both individually and as a team. 
The last game was insane, it wasn’t as descriptive as the first games were, but holy cow.

Riko almost murdering Neil on national tv was wild. As well as Ichirou’s resolution to everything 😳 that man is scary as hell, as in, true fear, not only rivalry like with Riko.

The development that the team goes through -Kevin specially- and their relationships are chefs kiss. I need another book just with the Foxes existing 🥺 their friendship is amazing and it’ll give me serotonin for like half a year 🥺❤️

Neil and Andrew’s relationship would have been a massive surprise if it weren’t hinted in the description of the book 🙃😂 it was nice tho. Not really developed -romantically speaking- but it was rather inevitable, and very sweet

Neil’s sexuality could have been more explored tho 🥺 I would have loved a confirmation of him being demisexual, it would have been awesome. It’ll stay as a headcannon in my head 🥺

Dang, I almost forgot about Neil’s dad 😬😬 and his right hand, she’s scarier than his dad even Dx that storyline also felt a bit rushed? Like it was over in a second. Granted, it was intense and probably for Neil wasn’t a second, but it wasn’t as trascendental as others storylines

10/10, would recommend it to everyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Alcohol, Grief, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault

bisquii's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.0

As this isn’t the first in the AFTG series, you probably don’t need this but its still important. 

READ TRIGGER WARNINGS BEFORE READING! 

WARNING:
Unrealistic depiction of medication/prescription drugs (antipsychotics) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

The book does not pull any punches or sugarcoat traumatic events, please be careful. If you have any doubt about being okay with reading about any of the trigger warnings, do know that the depictions of them are very graphic!

jenarae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia and Grief

natnat_7's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Medical trauma, Torture, Violence, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Body horror

Moderate: Misogyny, Outing, Police brutality, Self harm, Sexism, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, and Rape

miamcmillan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny fast-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

5.0

at least my 11th reread bc it never gets old neil josten i love you 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

violet_oops's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent and Sexual content

Minor: Gun violence

frenchave03's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Torture