Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

52 reviews

kagamine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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

Graphic: Death and Abandonment

Moderate: Grief

heoleen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense 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? No

4.25

Wat een lekker verhaal. Het is heerlijk geschreven (en vertaald), met een continue opbouw in spanning. Op het einde nog een cliffhanger waardoor ik meteen door wil lezen.
Enige minpuntje was dat de love triangle een beetje onnodig was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Classism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Abandonment, Blood, Sexual content, and Death of parent

holliesatchell's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Abandonment, Car accident, Death, and Toxic relationship

inkycat's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Abandonment

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Gun violence

abi4cardan_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Abandonment

emilymax21's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

Extremely enjoyable! I think putting the intended age range in perspective really helps you understand the writing style. It is a YA and about a teenager so some of the more juvenile themes & easily digestible writing makes more sense if you keep that in mind. I feel like plenty of people judge it for the style without accounting for the age range. I think that’s also why some of it was indeed predictable. But a lot of the twists were still surprising which I enjoyed.  However I still gave  it  a 3.75 instead of 4 because I think some of the relationships could’ve been developed better, and the emotions felt a little rushed for certain characters. Hopefully that’s more flushed out in the sequel books. 
 

I totally predicted the Toby/Harry thing. The whole book I knew he had to be more than just an intro character. For a while I wasn’t sure if he was the grandfather who just faked his death, or the son, but still. Maybe it was predictable but idc it’s still a clever way to leave a cliff hanger. I also think Rebecca’s involvement was predicable, but I’m surprised she wasn’t MORE involved. I feel like we didn’t learn enough about her or her relationship with Thea and Emily. Or her obvious mental health issues. Hopefully we get more on that in future books. Also I’m sorry but Tobias Hawthorne is creepy as FUCK for all of this. Keeping track of a 6 year old he met once??? And she just happened to have the same birthday as the girl who died, so she orchestrated his whole damn will around it?? Like Jesus what a weirdo. The epilogue with cancer made me feel bad for him cuz he wasn’t sure he truly mattered to his grandfather too.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Minor: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Stalking

purplepenning's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

A fast-paced mystery with an intriguing premise, secret passages and scavenger-hunt-style puzzles, and a whole lot of pheromones and angst. The relationship drama is a little too messy and the puzzles a little too elementary and spelled out for my tastes, but you better believe I'm reading on!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Abandonment, Gun violence, Violence, Alcohol, and Car accident

Minor: Biphobia, Racism, Homophobia, Sexism, and Chronic illness

Underage drinking and drunkenness

linda_kemi's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Pregnancy

healingtothemax's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse