Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

A Guerra dos Tronos by George R.R. Martin

168 reviews

_lish_'s review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Death, Incest, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War

sav_22's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Drug use, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Pregnancy

Minor: Xenophobia, Vomit, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Abortion, War

graysondyed's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Game of Thrones is, hands down, the best epic fantasy novel. If you like the show, I suggest you read the series as well. Things happen a little differently and the characters are sometimes different than their TV counterparts. For those that haven't read the book: Be ready to hurt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Incest, Physical abuse, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

bitchwithapitch's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

hanhantap's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Finally finishing this book after starting it in 2019

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Alcohol, War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Slavery, Death of parent, Pregnancy

akane_reads's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment

Minor: Kidnapping

zeppelinnyx's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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3.93

Quality of Writing: 8/10
Pacing: 9/10
Plot Development: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Enjoyability: 3/10
Ease of Reading: 7/10
Ending: 8/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

onyxisalive's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I enjoyed reading this, however- I recognise that without watching the show I might not have liked it as much. The reasoning for this is, that a lot of the plot lines (/things that are being set up) aren’t given any relief until later on (much later) due to this, I think without knowing what was going to develop my view of this book would be lower. This is because a lot of the issues I may have (like the misogyny, trope based characters) I know get resolved/taken apart later. This allowed me to be patient with the book and just enjoy it. 
I had a lot of fun just comparing the book to the show and figuring out what it is has been changed and why, it meant that at no point was I bored. Mainly because I was reading for the details. Caitlyn stark is much more interesting in the book

in the show her treatment of Jon isn’t too bad, it can come across as rudeness due to grief, a one off thing. Here though it is very clear she is abusive. One of my favourite scenes here was when Caitlyn was going up the vale with the Stone girl (who due to also being a ‘bastard’) reminded her of Jon and you can really see the complicated feeling there

 
The writing was solid throughout. At no point did the descriptions start to feel too long like in books like a little life. 
All in all, solid read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity

narodiangelo's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury

roznn's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Classism