Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake

5 reviews

grayscale08's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Torture, Violence, War, and Body horror

Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, Child death, Infertility, Suicide, Gore, Confinement, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Classism, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Body shaming, Pregnancy, Animal death, Medical content, and Sexual content

cardlikecredit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This one was way more intense than the previous books but a pretty solid wrap up. Not for the faint of heart though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Confinement, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Minor: Kidnapping and Infertility

pageafter_paige's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This final book wrapped up the series better than I had anticipated. I laughed, I cried (twice), and I screamed throughout the story! The character arcs came full circle and really tore my heart out. Even though romance isn’t the focus of the book I am always rooting for Billy and Arsinoe so without the bonus epilogue I would’ve been in limbo. Overall great series and I found this book very fast paced 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Infertility, Torture, Body horror, Grief, Murder, War, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Violence, Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, and Confinement

esme_may's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I adored this! I'm so glad I decided to finish this series because it was so much better than the last one. An incredible end to the series

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror, Murder, Self harm, Xenophobia, Confinement, Grief, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty and Sexual content

emily_mh's review

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

The best way to sum up my feelings about this book (and this series as a whole, really) is that nothing feels developed enough. It's like a cake. The core elements - the flour, sugar, eggs, etc. - are there, and they're good, but it wasn't put in the oven long enough so everything about it seems underbaked. Like you're about to sneeze and you know it's gonna be a good one, but it never comes. Or a 2D drawing that was meant to be a 3D rendering. 

In terms of specifics, the ending action was pretty good.

Although the most important chapter in the whole book, where Katherine changes allegiance and Mirabella dies, came across as a sketch or an outline, so didn't feel like the momentous event that it was. Mira dying at this point before she could really made an impact also just turned her into a non-character for me.

But apart from that, I don't have much else to say. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, and Self harm

Moderate: Death of parent, Cannibalism, Ableism, Child abuse, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Torture, and Body horror

Minor: Child death, Grief, Alcohol, Sexual content, Infertility, Vomit, Confinement, Medical content, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Pregnancy

Illness, loss of a loved one