Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor

7 reviews

hippievamp's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Confinement, and Body horror

Minor: Abandonment and Drug use

kbowles24's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Murder, Abandonment, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

lettigirl101's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Body horror, Classism, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Medical content, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Death of parent, and Abandonment

cyanscrump's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

This was a good read. The concept was very fun and I enjoyed finding out what was going on in the hotel. 

I enjoyed the unease that continued building as the hotel was explored. Yrsa's artefact was a horrifying concept to have lurking in the back of my mind the entire time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Confinement, Death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

monniebiloney's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

3.75

Pros:
has a wonderful setting
I liked the horror elements, especially at the beginning of the book
The ending was satisfying

cons:
The ramance fell flat. They were trying to go for some kind of enemies to lovers like tension but Idk if I just hate Enemies to lovers, or this book make it real really boring.

The main character also felt very entitled to other people's lives which bothered me. Like you are NOT owed the secrets of your aquantenses, let alone your friends. The amount of times he got mad at Bel, who wasn't even her boyfriend yet, for not telling her stuff like, was kidn go anoying.


The fact the MC also was clumbsy, but only clbsy when the plot called for it was also quite anoying.


All in all, I was planning on rathong the book 3 stars, but I felt the ending was satisfying enough to bump it up to 3.75. If Bel and the Main character weren't a couple and instead they focused more time on Beatrice, I probably would have rather the book 4.75.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Murder, Vomit, Torture, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Trafficking, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

karapillar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, and Animal death

eve_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

2.5

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ The atmosphere of this book was it's strongest aspect. The descriptions of the magical hotel rooms were serving HEAVY Night Circus vibes.

⁕ The text could have gone through another round of editing. There were a couple of grammatical errors and VERY some repetitive descriptions of all the characters' skin?! Like, the author dedicated SEVERAL lines per page at times to break from the plot to point out every single character's complexion (even if they were no name/background characters and had NO impact on the story whatsoever). It was so weird.

⁕ The magic system was cobbled together at best. I would have forgiven this, if it were not for the fact that the largest conflict in the story was dependent on how the energy of magic is used/stolen, etc.

⁕ The main romance came out of nowhere with hardly any build up and it enraged me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence