Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

14 reviews

tabea1409's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Vomit

camiclarkbooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

“Foxglove” draggggged! It wasn’t until the last three or so hours of the audiobook that things started picking up and getting interesting. Definitely suffers from Second Book Syndrome—just a way to push the plot from Book 1 to Book 3 for the conclusion. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Sexual content, Death, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

While I could guess where the story was going to end I very much enjoyed the journey there. I can’t wait to learn more about Life Death and Fate and how Signa fits in with all of that. Blythe gets some POVs too and I enjoyed them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Animal death, Classism, Death, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Murder, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion

xom4e's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

I would give this 10 stars if I could! Big loves. I didn’t think this would be better than the first book, Belladonna, but it absolutely positively was!! 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Child death, Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Death

Minor: Abortion

I actually CAN NOT wait for Wisteria.

britthill's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death

nicoles_reading_corner's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Child death

bujo_bellel's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

OMG I LOVE LOVE LOVE the characters, the book, the story line EVERY.THING. Like DEATH AND SIGNA sdfajfenfkfnafn I LOVE THEM SO MUCH and they make me so happy and they're so happy!! Also I somehow did NOT think of the ending although it was low key obvious but I was so devastated by Death and Signa that I did not notice! Idk if it was shown in the tapestries but also they already had the connection at the statue like OMG it was so obvious but I was too into it to tell. I literally CAN'T WAIT for Wisteria to come out like AHHHHHH! Fate was kind of a jerk in here but I guess we'll see what happens to him in the next book :) I really liked how the story played out in the end, like how everything unfolded, the murderer was quite unexpected and the reason behind it, I was sad for what happened and also the clues we saw earlier all made sense at the end. I was so immersed into the story and the characters and I'm glad that Blythe and Signa made it through to the end :) I really liked seeing the ghosts in Foxglove and their different stories I think they, especially Amira, helped Signa a lot with her loneliness when she couldn't see Death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy, Vomit, and Child death

kassidyreads's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Pregnancy, Blood, Death of parent, Vomit, Sexual content, Animal death, and Child death

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

The theme of this book: WOMEN PROTECTING WOMEN. Blythe Hawthorne is a goddamn treasure.

These are one of the very rare occasions where I felt like I loved the second book of a series more than the first. Is there a third? I don't know, I haven't looked it up yet but I'll be disappointed if we don't have one after THAT conclusion. If there was a certain amount of whodunit intrigue in the first one, this one had it amped up.

Someone's poisoned the duke and blamed it on the wrong person, you would never believe who was the real killer! Signa and Blythe are very limited in their time in finding the real culprit in order to free Elijah Hawthorne. This is complicated even more with the arrival of Fate who is trying to find the person reincarnated from his lover, Life, who he believes is Signa. Normally, love triangles annoy me but this one was less of a triangle and more of ... one line trying to intersect the other like a T. It was fairly obvious that one member of that triangle was the intruder, but how his story turned out was a lovely surprise.

I enjoyed the gothic atmosphere in both books, glad to see it didn't stray far from it between this and the first book. We even get an intro to Foxglove, Signa's parents' home and it is just as mysterious if not more haunted. And Adalyn Grace's writing? Chef's Kiss. The description of the settings were rich and vibrant, and the banter between Blythe and other characters was thoroughly enjoyable.

"She didn't care to be a sunflower, unfurling her petals in the daylight for all to see. She would rather be an adorable little mushroom, thriving in the dark crevices where few ventured to look."

Girl, same.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Toxic relationship, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual content and Blood

Minor: Pregnancy, Vomit, and Animal death

maregred's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Death of parent