Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir

39 reviews

queermothman's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

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Sabaa when I catch you!!

This book does its job, but I do think it's the weakest in the series.

Helene gets NOTHING are you KIDDING ME?? what was the point in making her suffer so much???? She winds up alone while Laia and Elias just get off free???? Yeah Darin dies, but Mirra gets brought back conveniently and Laia is just fine with that.

Keris is one of the most chilling, well written female villains I've ever read, and you END HER STORY LIKE THIS????? HUH???

So, it could have been better. I honestly think this series could have been expanded into 5 installments. (And also written as an adult series.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, War

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Genocide, Slavery

notapenguin's review against another edition

4.0

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Grief, War

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Sexual content

nightstitch96's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Slavery, Grief

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content

emilywemily6's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional tense 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: Complicated

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I love this series, but this one was actually my least favorite. I think that is mostly because the entire series has led up to a huge, dramatic conclusion and it felt like the conflict resolved much too easily for the tension I have experienced throughout the rest of this series. There were still plenty of gut-wrenching twists and a lot of depth to this book, but I think the climax felt a little flat for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Genocide, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Police brutality

Minor: Sexual content

missgarceau's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

linde_ahobbit's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional sad tense 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: Complicated

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I really liked the book, eventhough it was a tad too long, up until the end  when

Harper gets killed off... It's such an unnecessary death in my opinion. I get why Darian was killed, because Laia needed a reason to kill the nightbringer. But Harper?? Can't Helene get anything for herself? Yeah, she gets to be empress but she lost everyone in te process. Idk, it really rubs me the wrong way. Especially since Laia and Elias get such a happy ending together. :/ Suffice to say I cried a lot reading the last chapters of this book. Justice for Harper and Helene...

That's also the reason I'm only giving this book 4 stars. It was good, but it left me feeling sad and unsatisfied at the end.

I also did not enjoy Keris ending. She was absolutely vile and having childhood trauma doesn't explain away the awful things she did.

Those are the thoughts I have right now. Great series, but the ending was not satisfying for me personally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Slavery, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, War

chrisb913's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

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I am in awe with this series. I have loved every single book. It is not perfect and relys heavily on tropes but for me it worked. This final book ran me through the emotional gambit and I am so grateful to have read this story. I do not want to make any comments about the main cast of characters to avoid spoiling any moments.

Sabaa Tahir is a true Kehanni and I look forward to reading all of her other stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War

Moderate: Sexual content, Slavery, Grief

Minor: Child death, Homophobia, Sexism

mj1588's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

cosmic_kurt's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Child abuse, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Abandonment

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Child death