Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

12 reviews

bibliorama's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

Enjoyment - 4
 Start - 4
 Characters - 3.5
 Atmosphere - 4
 Plot - 3
 Ending - 3.5
 Style - 4.5 

Overall - 3.8

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

maple_dove's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Alcohol, Death, Blood, Misogyny, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gore, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, and Self harm

Minor: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Child death, War, Animal death, Vomit, and Sexual content

Self-harm (graphic - Ritualistic purposes)

zaesbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Okay. Wow. 

You often hear about “the second book curse”. This phenomenon in which the second of a series is a bit of dud - something to get through to continue the story. This book is not. 

Since the world has already been built and as much time is not needed spent creating this island of Fennbirn, this book moves quickly. Lots of action, lots of character development. The beautiful writing and storytelling started in the first book continues here.

Kendare Blake does such a good job of keeping the reader on their toes; never quite sure what will happen. Which I deeply appreciate! Halfway through this series and (though I have hopes) I genuinely have no clue how it will end. And I am very excited to find out! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Violence

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Grief, Confinement, and Animal cruelty

cardlikecredit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.75

This book was so intense! The pace definitely was better than the first one, especially the utter chaos at the end. I also appreciated the character map at the beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

pagesbycaroline's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book definitely keeps you on your toes. There was so many ups and downs where you thought something was over and then it comes back later. A good sequel.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

thaliareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.0

Overall I enjoyed this book. Through probably an accidental pocket tap on my end while trying to pause the book, I'm pretty sure I skipped about an hour of the book towards the end, but didn't realize for a bit because I assumed it was just the jumpiness between perspectives. While I like the idea of the book and am glad I read it, I don't think I would have finished it if I were reading the physical book because I moved through it pretty slow. I do still plan to finish the series as I'm excited about the direction the story was moving at the end of this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

This book is very dark. Be prepared for self-poising with the intention of getting stronger, animal attacks, and general violence and torture. Injuries are described in high detail. There are some animals that do die, and one animal that becomes neglected during this book.

eddiroll's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

bookishgoob's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Such a beautiful and heartbreaking sequel. part of me doesn’t want to go to the next book from the fear of my heart breaking even more. Katharine is terrible and i can not stand any of the arryns. this book series is such an adventure and i very much recommend it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, and Violence

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ 4.5 Stars

I read Three Dark Crowns about a year ago, and I’m just now, finally, coming back to finish the series. This sequel definitely took me by surprise in that I wasn’t able to put it down. Every spare moment I had, I found myself reaching for One Dark Throne.

What perhaps most took me in this book was how well the tension is done. The whole time, the three queens are racing towards at least two of their inevitable dooms. Along with the tension, the pacing was also very well done. The action and the lulls aligned excellently, and there was never any time that I found myself getting bored.

The payoff and continued development from the events of the first book is was another aspect that I enjoyed, especially in regards to Katharine and Arsinoe. I was hoping for some more explanation on how it is that Arsinoe is a poisoner but was sent to the naturalists, and we did get a little, but that’s something I can look forward to learning in the coming books.

Much like in Three Dark Crowns, the atmosphere and worldbuilding is amazing. I love the world of Fennbirn and how vividly developed it is. I also liked how this book expanded the world, particularly by introducing more about the war gift through Jules’s story. I’m very interested to see where her war gift and legion curse go throughout the remaining two books. 

The only reason that this isn’t a five-star book for me is just because it lacked that certain, extra “umph” that really pushes a book into five stars. It was a great, un-put-downable read, but there was nothing that was really mind blowing or left me totally surprised. 

I think that One Dark Throne was a great sequel to Three Dark Crowns, and I’m very excited to see where this series goes!

2022: 14

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Violence

Moderate: Body horror and Death

emily_mh's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I feel pretty much the same about this instalment as I did about Three Dark Crowns: this book had the same selling points and pitfalls. I added a quarter star to the rating as the second half is better and has definitely breathed new life into the plot line; I’m intrigued to see where the series goes next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Self harm, Ableism, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death, Alcohol, War, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Grief, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Misogyny