Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Dark Triumph by Robin Lafevers

14 reviews

sleeping_roses's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Grief, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Child death, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Death, Violence, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: War, Death of parent, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Torture and Pedophilia

mmefish's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

5.0

I must have faith, but having faith is hard, so very much harder than despair.

Stayed up at night twice in a row, teared up a few times. 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Incest, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: War, Physical abuse, Animal death, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, Torture, and Physical abuse

rosered_reading's review against another edition

emotional

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Incest

themoodreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, War, Blood, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: War, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

katyfortner's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

How do I even start this review.. the heartbreak, the love story, the strong badass female role, and the crushing childhood trauma really took me on the biggest rollercoaster and I loved it. There were parts of this book that once I read it I had to put the book down and just mourn for the character or just digest what I read. I thought I wouldn’t like this book as much as the first since it tells a different character’s story but wow I was wrong. This one is definitely more heartbreaking than the last and I’m sure the next book will be even more so. There are major trigger warnings for this book.

There are major trigger warnings for this book like incest, rape, child death, suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts, blood, murder, and more. It completely caught me by surprise that she had several cases of rape and incest that she had to endure. I don’t think I could have handled it at all. Also, the fact that she finally met someone that let her have an escape from her terrible reality and got pregnant and had a daughter just for her father to kill it in front of her. I was crying for her during that part. I could not even imagine the pain and suffering she had to go through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Child death, War, Violence, Torture, Murder, Cursing, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Incest

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Abortion and Infertility

alyssaofkeefe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Domestic abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

lyserature's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

3.75

Sybella should've kissed girls. They mention she taught Annith and Ismae how to kiss??? THE MAID??? Tephanie and her deserved to have at least a moment... 
 

THE BABY??? NEVER IN MY FUCKING LIFE DID I EXPECT THAT (I did, there was foreshadowing but it still took me a few minutes) MY GOD.
THE WAY MEN DEFENDED D'ALBRET ??? There is his fucking daughter telling you how vile he is and was to his wives (SIX FUCKING WIVES DEAD, HELLO??) but nooooo he's a honorable man, he's good on the battle field. DIE. It's giving "But he was nice to me."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Infertility

fictionaladventures's review

3.0

I liked this one, but not as much as the first one. My opinions might change on a reread because I went through like a 10-day slump while reading this, so that may have affected my enjoyment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Sexual harassment, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Incest and Sexual content

belleden's review against another edition

dark hopeful tense slow-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? Yes

4.0

Ismae and Sybella are exceptionally written and bring unique perspectives and personalities to their similar backstories. It’s hard not to love all of LaFever’s characters!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Pedophilia, Incest, and Child death

mkcarr's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Wow! That was dark AF. made the first book look like child’s play! Major, major trigger warnings, some expected from the hints in book 1, and some so jaw-dropping to the point it was almost unnecessary. Like:

Did d’albrecht have to kill her baby?!?? Did she have to have been pregnant at all?!

I did find the book engaging and surprising at times… I wouldn’t have expected where the plot went. And I don’t mean that about the more “shocking” twists, but rather the more gentle ones (like

Beast kidnapping her rather than sending her back to dalbrecht multiple times<\>). The weak spot was the romance… I like the latter half being about the redemptive power of love, but I felt like she fell a bit too quickly. I would have believed there was love there, but not necessarily of the romantic kind. Circling back on those triggering parts:

Sybella delivering all that upsetting info in the final part of the book basically in a couple long monologues just felt a little too exposition-y… the book had already done a decent job of showing her trauma  and showing how twisted her family was, so it felt like a step in the wrong direction to info dump that way. And it was a lot to take in as a reader.

in general, from my own limited perspective, I do think sybella was a good portrayal of trauma and PTSD. Oh also

I hope book 3 explains why the abbess was so wretched to her and hated her that much to send her to her death??? Bc WTF?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Incest, and Sexual assault