Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Cursed by Marissa Meyer

67 reviews

cee_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I always love Marissa Meyers books and Cursed didn't disappoint. It fully brings together all plot point which was satisfying. I found parts of the ending not super satisfying but that's just me. The actual ending fits with the over arching story very well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, and Death

Minor: Cursing

aprilthelibrarian's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

talkstofish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

The Gilded series was one of my favorite reads of the year - I only regret that I didn’t finish before my hold at the library was up because it took ages to get again! A sequel to Gilded, Cursed is a masterful, mature retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin story. I was riveted by the battles, tense during the realizations that savvy readers may have already caught earlier, and cried in the throne room with the gods for the fates of our heroes. I highly recommend this duology to fantasy lovers who want something in between young adult and high fantasy.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, and Violence

Because this book involves battles, keep in mind that there are deaths involved.

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.25

I adored the children and I am glad for the ending but the story was so slow paced and I found the pregnancy stuff kind of ick 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Kidnapping, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Blood, and Death of parent

luna24601_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

mykday's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Child death

kymopolaya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This dragged towards the end and I found it quite slow in parts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

mysterious_and_spooky's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Animal cruelty

amyvbxx's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

This book was better than gilded. Although I enjoyed guilded I thought sometimes it left holes and was dragged through plot points that maybe didn't pay off. 
I found this book to have a much better pay off and was more fast paced while still remaining readable. 
My main issue is the height of the drama happens very late into the book and I feel as though it spends a lot of time explaining unimportant aspects and then doesn't let the dust settle later in the story.

the Rumpelstiltskin twist was a little bit too on the nose to be dumped in right at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Blood

Minor: War

iothemoon's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Animal cruelty, Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail