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hazelgirl21's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Death and Violence
Moderate: Rape and Blood
emilyverceles's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Murder, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Gore, and Sexual harassment
lovelyspleenz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Addiction, Drug use, Rape, Drug abuse, and Murder
celah's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Murder, Rape, Drug use, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
uncica's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Otherwise, it's a really interesting story with a couple of mysteries, multi-faceted characters, and a solid magic system. I particularly like how Bardugo incorporated her fictional world within the real-life New Haven/Yale campus. She played off Yale's real-world secret societies quite well. Bardugo also made it difficult to predict the resolution.
Would recommend it to anyone interested in fantasy and mysteries.
Quotes:
He didn’t know how precious a normal life could be, how easy it was to drift away from average. You started sleeping until noon, skipped one class, one day of school, lost one job, then another, forgot the way that normal people did things. You lost the language of ordinary life. And then, without meaning to, you crossed into a country from which you couldn’t return. You lived in a state where the ground always seemed to be slipping from beneath your feet, with no way back to someplace solid.
Death words could be anything, really, as long as they spoke of the things Grays feared most—the finality of passing, a life without legacy, the emptiness of the hereafter.
Peace was like any high. It couldn’t last. It was an illusion, something that could be interrupted in a moment and lost forever. Only two things kept you safe: money and power.
...harmless people high on nothing more than their own pretensions.
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault
manou_r's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Drug abuse, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Death, and Sexual violence
kileyjojo's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
This was a fun read. It was a little difficult to get into in the beginning but the middle to end was super suspenseful and interesting. The ending felt like it fumbled the ball just a bit but overall I enjoyed the book. It takes a while to get into it but the payoff is worth it. If you like realistic fantasy and the paranormal, this is the read.
In terms of the content warning, a lot of the SA scenes feel very rushed and used only for shock value. In the moment, they are relevant but they seem to just disappear and never have any other message behind them when all is said and done. They are all very shocking and it makes it very difficult to want to continue the read.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Rape, Grief, Sexual assault, Drug use, Gore, Murder, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Pedophilia, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Excrement, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
emmaggedon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Ok, shit. So this was one of the best books I’ve had the privilege to live in for a long time. Pacey, topical, beautifully crafted characters and narrative, magic, mystery, academia but not too much. Obsession doesn’t even begin to cover it. So glad it’s a series. Not for the faint hearted though - it is Dark
Graphic: Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Medical content, Violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, Death, and Body horror
halefa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Rape, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Gore, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse
themagicalbeard's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
5.0
Graphic: Drug use, Rape, Blood, Death, and Drug abuse