drasticpear's Reviews (425)

Long Live Evil

Sarah Rees Brennan

5.0

dark emotional funny

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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WHY WAS THIS SO FUCKING GOOD???? HOLY SHIT. 

Tonally is basically galavant, with all the silliness that entails. But you're also punched in the gut at least a dozen times because everything is fucked. I feel insane!!!!!!

Shorefall

Robert Jackson Bennett

3.0

challenging dark emotional

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

A Court of Mist and Fury

Sarah J. Maas

DID NOT FINISH: 87%

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and they were soulmates 🙄

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

2.0

adventurous dark

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Tamlin is such a bore. The fact that most of the fae-ness is hidden until about 60% of the way through the book made it a slog. I almost dnf-ed this book for a second time but pushed through with the power of liveblogging my frustrations to a friend. Thankfully the last 15% was actually enjoyable largely because tamlin wasnt in it much

The only thing thats carrying me forward into the next book is knowing that

tamlin/feyre isn't endgame

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Slavery, War

Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book Two

Ginn Hale

2.0

adventurous dark hopeful

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A Companion to Wolves

Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette

2.0

adventurous challenging

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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introduces some very interesting concepts. grapples with sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, and genocide. i'm interested in how things develop in the next two books, but it is a bit... dry? at some points felt more of a slog to get through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, War, Injury/Injury detail

Turning [터닝] - Vol. 1, Ch. 1-250

Kuyu

3.0

adventurous

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Vol. 4

singNsong, UMI

5.0

adventurous dark

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Vol. 5

Sleepy-C, singNsong, UMI

5.0

adventurous dark

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Vol. 6

Umi(REDICE STUDIO), Sleepy-C(3B2S STUDIO), singNsong

5.0

adventurous dark

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes