Reviews tagging 'War'

The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen

63 reviews

sami_leigh's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, and War

Minor: Confinement, Toxic relationship, War, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Child death, Grief, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Dual POV, third person narration. Relatively strong character development allowing for the reader to truly champion the protagonist. The world building left some description to be desired in order to truly picture the setting of Ithicana and The Bridge. I’m looking forward to the development of some characters -both their relationships with others and the revelation of further backstory -in the sequel. I LOVE the representation of strong female warriors who don’t seem to be questioned based on gender.

Aren and Lara are the perfect enemies to lovers to enemies recipe. I genuinely enjoy when a male MC ‘falls’ first and I appreciated that he was not naive to Lara’s plotting, making his intentions and feelings seem genuine. I want to know more about how Lara’s upbringing has inhibited her trust in Aren as some of her omissions seemed unnecessary and confusing at times. Further character development on her part will be intriguing to watch as it unfolds in book 2.

boba_n_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Growing up, Laura was trained to become her enemy’s queen and infiltrate from the inside. But will she be able to keep that promise? A fun read with a bit of spice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, War, and Violence

ktkncd's review

adventurous emotional tense slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, and War

Minor: Misogyny

kaseybereading's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, and War

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous funny slow-paced

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

4.5

The Bridge Kingdom is a fun read. The characters are not deep but they are relatable. The plot is nothing new but still an excellent story. It was not nearly as spicy as some people led me to believe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and War

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

mypatronusisajedi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

khloereads86's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

This is one of my favourite fantasy books and I never understand why it’s not more popular. It’s not perfect but it really draws you in, it’s a really interesting world and the dynamics and enemies to lovers between Lara and Aren are so good. The ending although we saw it coming was still heartbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, War, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Torture, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

Minor: Gore and Blood

charhollyx's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I was really looking forward to reading this series for quite some time, and it didn’t disappoint. Although the plot is relatively predictable, the world was interesting and the characters were believable.
Although I would have preferred a little more romantic build up/sexual tension - lacking of actual sex didn’t bother me at all but I live for tension. 
If you haven’t got the sequel readily available before you start reading, I really recommend purchasing both!!

I didn’t particularly enjoy the ending, after Aren learnt of all Lara’s lies, saw her development and trusted her regardless; I really liked his maturity. However, when he finds out about the letter that Lara couldn’t destroy in time, all of his affection for her vanishes and he decides not to believe her? Sounded like a random decision for the theme of the second book to be fair.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder, War, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent

k_wage's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, and Gore

raeraesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: War, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail