Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

88 reviews

anielabooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Overall great book, but I still preferred the first one. It was very slow at first, but it really picked up towards the end. Honestly, I was not expecting that many character deaths. Some of those were a but out of pocket. However, I was really excited to meet many characters and grow some old ones. I particularly loved Tamar and Nikolai. Although I wasn’t particularly fond of Zoya, I still appreciated how Bardugo developed her character in this book. I’m excited for what is to come in the next book as I am still very much in love with the world and NIKOLAI LANTSOV. Additionally, I really appreciated the bonus Genya chapter because she was always one of my favorite characters from book 1.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, War, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Classism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Body horror, Colonisation, Death of parent, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gaslighting, Self harm, Xenophobia, Infidelity, and Suicide attempt

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Animal death and Torture

jaxgerman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• 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

3.75

I enjoyed this book and if you are a fan of Leigh Bardugo I’m sure you will enjoy it too. Though I did feel that it suffers for being the middle  book in a trilogy, it meant a lot of the book felt like filler just setting up for the grand finale. It came across quite slow paced but as I was already invested in the storyline I found this mainly forgivable. 

And that being said I felt the book stood up well against the first and introduced new great and lovable characters as well as building up the characters and storylines from the first. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Toxic relationship

bentobookdragon11's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

Minor: Animal death, Rape, and Self harm

*kissing*

archivofrances's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

faitherslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Animal death

Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Sexual assault

monbeam's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Death and War

junenoble's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Kidnapping

Moderate: Classism and Stalking

Minor: Suicide attempt, Death, Animal death, and Gun violence

babsi_222's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

-I don't like this book it's really boring and slow
-I was so pissed and mad at Mal and Alina the whole fcking time ahh, it's not okay
-Nikolai Lantsov <3 
-A few things were predictable tbh
-Definitely liked the first book better!!!! 
-Only one S&B book to go for me in order to read SoC

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Grief, Violence, and War

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, and Animal death

jenarae's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and War

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Classism, Gun violence, Drug use, Grief, Kidnapping, and Torture

Minor: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit