Reviews tagging 'Child death'

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

40 reviews

c45p1n's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Death, and War

Minor: Abandonment, Child death, Death of parent, Homophobia, Outing, and War

tr_born's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Violence

Moderate: Child death

maruu_t's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Murder, and Physical abuse

Sinceramente, no recordaba casi nada de este libro y leerlo casi 5 años después me dí cuenta que cosas estaban realmente mal con este libro y que cosas safaban pero, LO QUE ME MOLESTA ES QUE NO ME ACORDABA QUE JACE Y CLARY SABÍAN DESDE EL FINAL DEL PRIMER LIBRO QUE ERAN "HERMANOS", ME VOY A LARGAR A LLORAR POR SABER QUE TENGO 5 LIBROS POR DELANTE CON ELLOS LAMENTANDOSE DE QUE SON HERMANOS Y NO PUEDEN ESTAR JUNTOS, NADIE LE DIJO A CASSANDRA CHE PIBA, NO DA HACER ESTO POR FAVOR SOLTÁ EL INCEST KINK. Quiero agradecer de que existe la pareja de Izzy y Simón y la de Alec y Magnus.

khloereads86's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, and Incest

sapphic_reader's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.0

Rep:
Gay side character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Incest, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Animal death, and Homophobia

fremzz's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Child death and Child abuse

Minor: Alcohol

vici24kl's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Incest, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, and Child death

danaleelin's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Torture

feuillycakes's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Honestly, this is solidly average. I don’t think that about a lot of books but there were so many parts I enjoyed while the rest had me fighting off the cringe, so I think I’m justified here. I have the misfortune of kind of knowing a few things that will happen just by virtue of existing on the internet, so I wasn’t shocked by anything important and I’m not on the edge of my seat about the Thing that’s the big plot twist of this book. The Rat Thing? I absolutely lost it. The vampires get smashed and turn into small animals or piles of dust temporarily thing? Ridiculous. Loved it. The information overload was not so fun. Neither were the occasional dramatics or the bouncing around from place to place for previously stated info-dumping reasons. 

I enjoyed that Clary is not a perfect character as usually happens with main ya characters written around this time. She can be a total b-word (you choose which) and knows it. She loses her temper and gets irrationally jealous and is horrible at times and doesn’t excuse that. I can respect that in a character. It’s rare. 

Surprisingly, the only other character I understood as well as Clary was Simon. This is probably because she knows him the best and we are in third person limited, but even when she wasn’t understanding his actions or feelings I could tell what was up. Their friendship was honestly the best and most developed relationship in the book and I won’t back down on that. 

Mostly what I noticed was these teenagers talk like teenagers, they act like teenagers and think like teenagers and that must be such a flex for this author around all her author friends. How many people can claim to be able to write teenagers so accurately even a decade on they still hold up? I’m telling you besides the off colour remarks here and there and that part where Clary straight up outs someone (who knew already but still) these could be present day teens who just don’t swear. 

So yeah, average. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Child death

Minor: Incest

aria_'s review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I feel like City of Bones spent a lot of time with worldbuilding, and because there was so much going on that we needed to learn the plot had to be a lower priority. I've very excited for the sequel though because I hope that the plot can be more complex and more fast-paced and that we can continue to learn more and more about all of the characters. I did really love all of the characters though, and the world and fantasy aspects were mesmerizing!!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, and Confinement