Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Val en Verlossing by Leigh Bardugo

47 reviews

beatriks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective relaxing 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

4.25

After a mediocre second book (with a cliffhanger), I went on with the final part. This didn’t disappoint me, I liked the character and plot developments, although I’m not fully convinced of the ending’s likeliness. 

But then again, this is YA fantasy, so I’ll be forgiving. :) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

elenamarmiroli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Questo libro è mediocre. 

L'inizio è lento e poco appassionante, la parte centrale ha qualche momento interessante, ma con soli tre avvenimenti veramente interessanti di breve durata. La conclusione risulta un po' affrettata su certi punti, e l'epilogo finale mi è piaciuto solamente per quanto riguarda

l'orfanotrofio

, ma non per quanto riguarda la sua scelta sul suo partner.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

christy_0909's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

By far my favorite book of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy. I love the plot way more in this book than the others even if I still liked Nikolai and the Darkling more than Mal XD 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood and Grief

Minor: Torture

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

eve_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-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

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ Out of all the books in the Shadow and Bone series, this is by far the strongest. I loved seeing Bardugo's writing develop and strengthen with each novel.

⁕ THE ENDING, oh my gosh the ending. It made all the meh moments of the first book worth it.

⁕ I super appreciated that Bardugo gave us more time to know and love the minor characters that weren't as present in the earlier books, especially Zoya. Her inclusion of them makes me even more excited to start the King of Scars sequel series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship

pinpilinpaux'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

kaiulanilee's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

By far my favorite of the three. I think the pacing and character work was the most well done and I found her writing developed really well. I had often felt while reading the other two that she was teetering on the edge of making things dark but not doing so because they’re YA novels. I think Ruin & Rising had the perfect amount of darkness and graphic descriptions to it where it felt both hard hitting but also appropriate for its age group. All in all, a super solid fantasy novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Genocide, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Death of parent

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

I think this one might be my favorite of the trilogy. Even if the ending was a bit too convenient. The pacing felt better to me than the second one (which dragged quite a bit for me). The twists in the plot helped to keep the plot moving at a good pace and some of the side characters grew on me. Alina still isn't my favorite narrator, but I loved her little group of rebels. They were great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body horror, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Body shaming and Mental illness

deezy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Toxic relationship and Blood

kris386's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder