Reviews tagging 'Death'

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

21 reviews

roz146's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Abandonment

sssssoup's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-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: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Child death, Toxic relationship, War, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Gun violence, Homophobia, Biphobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Medical content, Self harm, and Sexual content

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

4.5

 A really funny take on portal fantasies/magical schools, with a healthy dose of exploring the ways that words can hurt or heal. I loved Elliot, and Serene and Luke were also just so fun to read. And the theme of how scary it is to admit that you are worthy of love, of allowing others to know and care for you? Excellent. I had so much fun reading this book, though I agree with a lot of the other reviews that it was around 50-70 pages too long (though I cannot figure out what I would have cut since I thoroughly enjoyed every scene).

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, and Violence

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book was a bit of a slog, but quite endearing. I liked watching the characters grow, and I liked the self-aware nature of the narrative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Blood, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexism, Abandonment, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Ableism, Medical content, Suicide, Slavery, Misogyny, Cancer, Incest, and Cursing

Neglect, Self-loathing

onemamareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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: Death and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Torture

Read my full review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/in-other-lands

that_kid_with_the_sword's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Misogyny, Outing, Violence, Xenophobia, Biphobia, Colonisation, Death, Homophobia, Abandonment, Blood, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

samh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-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: Biphobia, Misogyny, Death, War, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Child death and Racism

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

aromarrie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Abandonment, War, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death and Death

sunkissedrose's review against another edition

• 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

THIS BOOK IS SO JRNEENENDBXJQ  the cast of characters, specifically the main trio, just makes you root for them in every way possible. you'll find yourself caring for Elliot even if he's an insufferable brat bc he's such a mean yet loving character. you grow with these characters as they learn about themselves, and their relationships with eachother just transforming into something so magical it surpasses matriarchal elven society and murderous harpies. Elliot truly is the star of the show and I've gotten so attached to this witty yet broken boy who only wants love.

gotta say tho, the romance, as in who Elliot ends up with in the end, felt unnatural and definitely needed another hundred page or so of development

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, and Bullying

Minor: Murder, Misogyny, Incest, and Death

tkhenry99's review against another edition

slow-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

3.75

I can totally understand why some people might not like this book. Elliot is definitely annoying, but I thought his dialogue was really funny most of the time, so I didn’t mind that he’s kind of completely insufferable. It’s not a super serious book, and it plays around with a lot of familiar tropes and stereotypes, so it’s just a fun read. It was kind of disappointing the relationships between the characters didn’t really develop until the last few pages. I kept wishing for scenes where they just talked to each other and bonded, but it was mostly just snarky back and forth dialogue (which was great! just not for the whole book). Also I really like imagery and descriptions of setting and characters, so I wish there had just been a little more of that to get a better sense of the setting and what Elliot (especially) even looked like.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Death and Violence