307 reviews for:

Critical Role: Bells Hells - What Doesn't Break

Cassandra Khaw

4.22 AVERAGE

riou's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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

karaconi12's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ileanamadison's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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Honestly kinda sleepwalked through this book. Never got super compelled by it. The plot felt repetitive and I don’t feel like I gained a lot of insight into characters I was already familiar with. There were moments of sincerity and connections that felt nice though. And I always love listening to grey delisle as Delilah and Robbie daymond in any capacity 

kaytheghost's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

embbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

marisarp's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

pseudohydra's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

dustinderefield's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

fruitbatwoman's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Another great book to expand the Critical Role universe, this time giving us an in-depth look at Laudna's backstory and inner workings.

This story was much darker than the other CR books, and fit the "fun scary" nature of Laudna very well. I am not sure how it would hold up for readers who are not fans of Critical Role, especially as there is not much in terms of plot - I would class this more as a reminiscing slice of life character backstory. That said, I loved the interactions between Laudna and the voice in her head and her childlike innocence, even as a scary undead creature. The things she comes up with to fight her boredom and isolation are bittersweet (and slightly creepy), like Paté, her talking, dead rat. The book had a lot of serious undertones as well, like the notion that a woman is either "a maiden, a mother, or a crone", and touched on archetypical roles and feminism.

The writing style was beautiful and the audiobook was amazingly performed by parts of the cast of Critical Role, as usual. Especially Laura Bailey as "the voice" will give me nightmares. Once again, a must-read for "Critters", otherwise a beautifully written fantasy/horror book somewhat light on plot. 

kmurphy90's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes