Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

80 reviews

totallyunemployed's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

rchulin1's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Blood, Alcohol, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Slavery, Classism, and Child abuse

orakuruno's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.25

Fantasy politics is some of the hardest stuff to write about, but this book series is doing it beautifully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death of parent, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child abuse, Slavery, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Gore, Grief, and Cursing

olivia_k_wood's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Murder, and Physical abuse

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, and Alcoholism

Minor: Classism and Racism

juliesleseecke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Bullying, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol

mangachild's review

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

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

3.5

Because it’s the first book of the series, it was very slow. This is my first fantasy book so I can’t really say anything about the world building because there is nothing to compare it to. 25% of the book was building the bases of the story, describing relationships between characters. 50% of the book is where it really started to pick up and I was hooked. The ending, I knew there was going to be a twist and it was pretty obvious. Overall I give it 3.5 ⭐️.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

pelb's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

5.0

This book was so much better than I expected it to be. I’m not all that into fantasy so I didn’t think I’d enjoy it but had to give it a try because of all the hype, and WOW. I’m speechless. That was such a wild ride of twists and turns. It’s so well written, with a beautifully crafted world and deeply complex characters. If you’re coming into this just for the enemies to lovers plot you will be disappointed, because it’s a bit different than that, but personally I loved it. It’s more political intrigue with a side of bully romance than a typical enemies to lovers romantasy. But even though the romance is a subplot it’s SOOOO GOOOD like you will be confused at first and hate it but do not fear. They call it a slow burn for a reason. That’s really why I fell in love with it. The main character Jude is morally grey, incredibly clever, and really,  really cool. I usually end up hating female leads (esp in fantasy) but I LOVE her. Anyway if you want your life changed for the better, read this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Death of parent, Slavery, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Medical trauma

Minor: Vomit

swane_nook's review

adventurous dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Slavery, Sexism, Blood, Toxic friendship, Death, Death of parent, and Bullying

sugiieop's review

adventurous challenging mysterious 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

Minor: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Gore, and Toxic relationship