Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

80 reviews

jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Violence, War, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Murder, Xenophobia, and Slavery

ktalbano's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

GODDDDDDD this book was glorious, perfect, no notes, i’m obsessed with this entire series, it jumped so quickly to #2 spot in my favorite series! this book especially was so emotional and gripping and because of jude’s gray morality, it was hard to predict how she was going to solve problems but she slayed (literally) as always! the tension, the character development, the action, the twists, every single plot moment was perfect and i’m SO sad this series is over now! i haven’t read a series this fast since the grishaverse. obsessed obsessed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Cannibalism

takarakei's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.5

Unfortunately a slightly lackluster ending to this series. I just felt like there wasn't quite enough plot things going on - too much of a continuation of Maddoc just being annoying without it staying interesting. Also, I didn't understand why we should be so quick to forgive Taryn? Sure I guess she married an asshole (that's on her!), but did she really earn Jude's forgiveness? Imo no!

The ending curse twist was interesting I guess but also easily resolved. Idk I guess I just expected to have a little more devastation in this series in general?

A friend send me Cardan's letters and WHY were those not included in every edition?! Gods that was the best part and it wasn't even included!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, War, and Murder

Minor: Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Abortion

bookishfads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Cannibalism, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

About the graphic warnings

As always, Jude gets in a fair amount of trouble and gets hurt, there's vivid description of her injuries as well as her taking out the stitches. Other characters as well. A head of a huge animal gets chopped off and there's lots of blood. A child is being held in a magical bridle that sinks into their skin, clearly abused by their parents.

You probably know what the moderate one is about

daenerystargaryen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, War, Blood, Sexual content, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Pregnancy

Minor: Confinement, Kidnapping, Abortion, and Torture

saretta02's review against another edition

adventurous challenging lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Cannibalism

peachtease's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Waiting for this one after I finished the last one was so hard, but this was a solid and fast read. I didn't want to put it down and do my normal life things. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, War, Pregnancy, and Cannibalism

unboundbooklover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: War, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy, Abortion, and Cannibalism

shelvesofivy's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, War, Murder, Pregnancy, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Torture, and Child abuse

amazelan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

bon..
d'un côté, il y a des passages qui étaient vraiment chouettes et le développement des personnages a continué à être intéressant, bien que pas toujours très réaliste.
de l'autre, c'était BEAUCOUP TROP rapide, les scènes s'enchaînent et les choses se dénouent de manière assez peu réaliste.

finalement, le moment le plus long est le moment de la malédiction, alors qu'il aurait pu être bien plus court pour laisser la place aux scènes d'action, par exemple.

j'ai un peu l'impression d'avoir perdu mon temps avec cette trilogie, j'ai lu pire certes mais j'ai lu mieux aussi en terme de fantastique YA.


bref, bien que des passages m'aient plu et que l'univers m'ait un peu captivé, je ne recommande pas. ça ne vaut clairement pas la hype qu'on en fait.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Grief, Torture, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Body horror, and Animal death