Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

El príncipe cruel by Holly Black

63 reviews

shadereads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Death of parent, Violence, Slavery, Self harm, Death, Suicide, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Bullying

Moderate: Xenophobia and Infidelity

Minor: Drug use

aysha_blake's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Classism, Death, Grief, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Death of parent, Murder, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, War, Infertility, and Stalking

grommit's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0

Fantastic politics, cruel people, and sucks you into its world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Death of parent

Moderate: Slavery, Abandonment, Suicide, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Blood

Minor: Classism, Racism, Child death, Infidelity, Addiction, and Pregnancy

bootsmom3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Alcohol, Death, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Grief, and Infidelity

bookishbutterfly'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Bullying, and Death of parent

Moderate: Slavery and Infidelity

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Mental illness, Vomit, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Self harm, Racism, Murder, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, and Death

dhutton1997's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book. I fell in love with the characters so quickly.

I thought that Jude and Carden was such an interesting dynamic and had I not known that they were getting together from a spoiler, I would have never guessed it. I think the story line between Locke and the twins was so twisted. He is the villain in plain sight. Black was so talented to make me love him and then get the rug pulled out from underneath me. Taryn made me so sad and mad. How could she not care more? I

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Kidnapping, Infidelity, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, and Confinement

noellelovesbooks's review against another edition

4.5

 Content Warnings: Blood, murder, death, loss of loved ones, abandonment, infidelity, cheating, toxic relationships, toxic friendships, violence, emotional abuse, bullying, physical abuse, kidnapping, slavery, drug abuse, loss of body autonomy, classism, gaslighting, suicide, pregnancy, and attempted murder of children born and unborn.

OMG how do I even start this review. I just finished reading...not even 10 minutes ago and my brain is still processing everything that happened.

This was a recommendation [and book gift] from Roni...I got fomo seeing all her updates when she was reading the series and decided I needed to read it too...and she was awesome enough to gift the trilogy to me 🥰

I've heard a lot of people talk about the trilogy but not really giving any real spoilers away...like literally all I knew before reading was that there was a Jude and a Carden...someone murdered her parents and she was raised in fairy...and that there was an entire page of just her name over and over. Which really...those 3 facts don't make for much info 🤣 Ngl I think I loved that though...I really had no idea what I was getting into.

From the start I sympathized and loved Jude. I had weird feelings of distrust towards certain characters...which ended up being well founded!

Maybe I can formulate my thoughts better soon...but until then I'm going to go marinate my thoughts and probably start book 2 😝 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Classism, Toxic relationship, Gore, Sexism, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Child death, Bullying, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

kingcrookback's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

Admittedly, a little heavy on the "young" in "young adult" for me, but I found myself glued to this. Holly Black does a good job of creating and maintaining tension regarding both characters and plot. I find the complicated father-daughter relationship between Madoc and Jude especially interesting. However, I found Black's worldbuilding a bit lacking in detail at times. What we do learn about the cultural norms and expectations of Faerie is effective. Faeries looking visibly inhuman? Love how that highlights Jude's outsider status. They can't lie? Fascinating! Keep Jude on her toes and keep me engaged by forcing us both to work at navigating interactions. At times, though, I felt a bit in the dark as to what certain things look like (nixies?? Madoc's estate??). Then again, I do also feel that because Black had me invested in Jude's journey, worldbuilding concerns are secondary. I absolutely zoomed through this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Slavery, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, and Physical abuse

Minor: Kidnapping, Infidelity, and Suicide

karly_ackley's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Slavery