Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

59 reviews

jupiterlee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Genocide, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Slavery, War, Violence, Death, and Abandonment

genny's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

It's a little hard for me to review this as it's been about 2 months since I finished it and I barely took down any notes...but I do know that I enjoyed it! The prose was engaging and the audiobook narrator (Joniece Abbott-Pratt) did a great job of bringing multiple characters to life. I loved the vivid settings. I went into this expecting a very popular trope to drive the story

(enemies to lovers)

but what I got was completely different - in a good way! I liked the found family aspect, though we didn't see enough of Dayo's council to make their love for each other completely believable. As Tarisai spent most of her time only with select members of the council, I often forgot just how many of them supposedly lived together and cared for each other. There also came a point when I felt that Tar had gotten too slow on picking up obvious clues...it dragged the story as you're waiting for her to figure out what you already did ages go. And the blossoming

Kirah and Woo In

romance made me uncomfortable because of the age gap, considering one of 'em is a minor. 😬

All that said, it's a worthwhile read and it proved to me that there's still space for fresh, unique stories in YA fantasy. I dove into the sequel immediately after finishing this :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexism, Violence, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Rape

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Vomit, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

Minor: Child death

hkburke2's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

Some fantasy books just take me away and this was one of them. Especially entrancing as an audiobook. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Death of parent

mayeeta's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

🌞4th book for Blackathon 2022🌞
fulfilling prompt: read a book between 312 pages and 387 pages

hmmm 
I need to think about how I feel about this some more 
overall i enjoyed it and i will be picking up the sequel since this is only a duology but its not an all-time new favorite 
idk i think i just expected more?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Misogyny, Abandonment, Colonisation, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Child death

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, Death, and Emotional abuse

paperbrownies's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

- lgbtqiap+, ya fantasy, magic, west african-inspired fantasy, DIVERSE, found family, friends to lovers trope, royalty, badass mc, curses and betrayal 
-  m|f 
-  black mc, ace sc, and a diverse casting of poc characters, minor disability rep 

what other names do you call raybearer and why is it amazing and stunning and as cg drews says a 'ray of excellence'? bc it managed to evoke so many feelings in less than 400 pages (am in awe, honestly) and had me sticking to the edge of my seat in anticipation for what was about to happen next throughout the course of the book. THAT in my opinion is the best feeling ever!!! 
it has one of the most unique storylines ive read in a book with the most beautiful world building (it is intricate and felt so very real), descriptions, lores and setting, that i could not help but greedily devour the words and want for more!! 
the characters were amazing!! i love my ace king, dayo and as for the mc, i have so much love and respect for tarisai, she is strong, determined and a TOTAL badass!! 
i cannot recommend this book highly enough!! 😭😭 

cw: violence, child abuse, attempted murder, drugging, manipulation, gaslighting, on-page death, references to police violence, death of children, vomit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Vomit

Moderate: Murder and Drug use

kaziaroo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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: Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Genocide, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Racism

Minor: Sexual content, War, and Violence

skylerher's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Minor: Sexual content and Suicide