Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty

62 reviews

mshaner2133's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Kidnapping

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious tense 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

4.25

Amazing book, lots of adventure, magic, history, and family. I’ll definitely be checking out the other books in the series once they’re out. Told in the format of Amina talking to a scribe, this story was fantastic but I did wish there was more piracy involved. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual harassment

unboxedjack's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Gore, Violence, Murder, and Death

Minor: Grief, Sexism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Islamophobia, and Transphobia

e_liz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Gore, Death, Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: War, Slavery, Transphobia, and Grief

alilbitofeveryth1ng's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Death, Alcohol, and Kidnapping

cerilouisereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Sexism

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol and Body horror

Minor: Misogyny, Slavery, Transphobia, Kidnapping, and Sexual violence

luverbyrd's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book was sadly not was I was expecting. I think I would have preferred a prequel to see Amina in her pirating days and then had this book to be excited about collecting her old crew and going on a new adventure. Not a slow reveal of the past.
If you want sailing and seafaring, this book has very little. I also was intrigued to read this because promotions talked about a cat on board, there is one but makes rare appearances.
I had little connection to the characters, I liked Dalila, but we didn't get a lot of time with her crew. It was all Amina.
Overall It was an underwhelming read for me. It was okay, but I just didn't jive with it the way I thought I would.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Kidnapping

shaipanda's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. 
This was an incredibly exciting and action filled book. I haven't been reading as much this year so I rushed to finish this before the archive date. As a result, there are still some parts of the book I have to come back to in order to call it fully finished. However, I did overall really enjoy this! I think if I'd read it at a more reasonable pace I probably would have enjoyed it slightly more but overall I really enjoyed the characters, the storyline, and the potential for more stories in this world. I also really loved the minor plot twist at the very end I found that to be really fun :)
I was personally not expecting anywhere near the amount of fantasy that ended up being in this book as I originally thought it was mostly just a pirate book, but I wasn't mad about discovering that just not what I originally expected. 
Overall would definitely recommend! 4.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Colonisation, Murder, Cursing, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Islamophobia, Rape, Transphobia, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

rosesforreading's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Murder, Addiction, Body horror, Torture, Sexism, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Islamophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, Animal death, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Misogyny