Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

17 reviews

gen_nh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Confinement, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Grief

emilycfox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault and Toxic relationship

bri_morgan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, Confinement, Animal death, and Child abuse

Minor: Child death

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

I love the additions to the Graceling world in this book! I especially enjoyed the Keeper(?) perspective and the interactions with the silbercows. I also thought that Lovisa as a character was very complex, and it was refreshing to see a teen in YA acting like a teenager instead of a small adult. very excited to pick up the next installment! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Confinement, Death, Child abuse, Classism, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Drug use, Animal death, and Death of parent

margaret_k30's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Death

Minor: Sexual content, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

kllyholt's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.75

I think Bitterblue may be one of my all time favorite characters and I loved seeing her again in this book, and especially because all the parallels between her and Lovisa’s upbringings were really interesting. But I absolutely hated that

Giddon and Bitterblue ended up together- mostly because of the age gap. I mean I saw it coming, and yes she’s older in this book, but he met her when she had just barely turned eighteen and he’s literally in his thirties. It gives me the ick- the author makes it obvious that it’s alright because “Giddon is a such good man” but that feels like such a cop out and really poor excuse, especially given how he has been in almost a mentorship role with her the entire time. It just reeks of grooming in my opinion. It’s not the most egregious display of it I’ve ever seen, but it’s still disappointing. It’s why I’m rating this book a little lower than I might have otherwise.

I liked everything else about this book though, especially the political and environmental commentary- it was really interesting and fun to read. 
Also, Lovisa’s character seemed very autistic to me- there’s one quote where she says, ‘“Why shouldn’t I ask about it directly? Would it be so terrible for everyone to say what they mean when they do things, and what they want, and why? Wouldn’t it make things simpler, and create fewer disasters?”’ 
Growing up I must have cried about that exact same thing hundreds of times- because I couldn’t understand why everyone around me would be upset or read into what I say all the time when I was trying my hardest to communicate with them the only way I am really able to. Anyways, I don’t know if this was an intentional thing by the author or not, but I definitely saw myself in Lovisa because of that and it made me love her character so much more. 

Also, the Keeper and the silbercows? I’m obsessed with them. Love them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Animal death

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Confinement, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Violence, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Blood, War, Bullying, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Vomit, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Torture

Drowning. Slut shaming. Starvation. Relationship between characters who are currently both adults, but almost definitely met when one was around 10 and the other was an older teenager/adult.

themoodreader's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Child abuse, Confinement, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Abandonment, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Vomit

kbairbooks's review against another edition

At first when I started reading I thought okay wrap it’s been years since this author added to this world makes sense it would be in the same POV but im 19% and I have no idea what’s going on and this mother is horribly abusive and I can’t stand another moment plus I don’t care what’s going on. Not enough intrigue perhaps? I don’t know I don’t want to continue reading. This book is putting me in a bad mood. Also the addition of sexual things was not a bonus in the story in fact it made me quite uncomfortable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content

mcgildey's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

Gorgeous! As a lifelong fan of the Graceling books, I picked this up as soon as I could! It took me a while to pick it up, I was worried that it might ruin my view of one of my favourite series if it was bad. I should have trusted Cashore! It had everything I loved about the series and more! Stunning worldbuilding, immersive writing, and great characters (I especially loved the sections exploring non-human povs!) This book got me out of a reading dry spell and was a great isolation companion. This is a very biased review, but I highly recommend Winterkeep regardless!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Child abuse, Animal death, Grief, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence