Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

51 reviews

marlenerouf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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: Abandonment, Murder, Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Ableism

danicampbell0506's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Abandonment, Mental illness, and Trafficking

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Death of parent, and Cursing

arys_library's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious slow-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

Even better than the first book! I absolutely loved this book and I’m really hoping there’s a third one. I feel like it ended on a really good note but I’m gonna miss not reading about the crows if there isn’t another book. I love how this book dived more into the characters thoughts and their relationships with eachother, it made me feel even closer to them and felt like I was watching these events right in front of me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Genocide, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Torture

Minor: Rape, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Drug use

ajboyd_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad 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

Moderate: Violence, Addiction, Murder, Abandonment, Classism, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Slavery, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Religious bigotry

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Trafficking, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, Chronic illness, Confinement, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Violence

klarahldg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Torture

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Cursing, Grief, Blood, Death, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Medical content

black_cat_iiix's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

I enjoyed this book even more than the Six of Crows, both because of the insight into how young and fallible the characters were and to see the characters develop and grow as they went along.

I did find some of the plot-twists becoming predictable and found some of the writing tactics used to keep the reader in the dark both a little lazy and once purposely misleading which was frustrating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Ableism, Classism, Dementia, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Trafficking

ajpotz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

amazing. read now. don’t question it. read it or i’ll cut off your pinky finger, maybe even threaten to steal your child or i might just throw a bomb at you. please i beg of you read this 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Violence, Gun violence, and Addiction

gayghostprince's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

fav book fav book fav book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Physical abuse, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, and Sexual violence