Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer

8 reviews

calicat42's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, Torture, Blood, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, and War

thumbeleia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Chronic illness, Gore, Body horror, Child death, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Police brutality, War, Classism, and Torture

gaby_readsss's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

Just finished my reread of this book and I loved it just as much, if not more than the first time. 
I loved revisiting this book because it allowed me to notice things I didn’t the first time I read it and also it reminded me of everything that happened and details I had forgotten. 
This book will always be a favorite of mine.
I’m so stoked to read Defend The Dawn!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Death, and Death of parent

mollysbooklist's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I loved this! Great character development and plot. Once I started I didn’t want to stop. I was immediately invested even through the world building. 


The story highlights that life is not always as simple as good vs. bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Classism, Murder, Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

zozo_reads's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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

4.5

Great world building did sort of expect the ending though. There was a plot twist in the beginning that I would have never expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Child death

mrsschreave's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

omfg so good wasn’t bored the whole way through

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Chronic illness

Moderate: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Alcohol, and Cursing

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

This was so addicting. I love Kemmerer's fantasy books just as much as her contemporary books!

Look no one was confirmed queer yet, but a man made eyes at another man and I HAVE SUSPICIONS!! I will sink with this ship.

Rep: white female MC, white male MC, cast of biracial and BIPOC supporting characters (no ethnicity implied since it's fantasy countries).

CWs: Blood, death, fire/explosions, injury/injury detail, medical content (widespread plague/plague outbreaks), murder, violence. Moderate: abandonment, grief, kidnapping, past mentions of parental death for both MCs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Grief

irisheyz77's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Violence