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Critical Role: Bells Hells--What Doesn't Break

Cassandra Khaw, Critical Role

Ages 14–18

Readers rate it 4.1 (10 on Hardcover)

273 pages · Released Oct 8, 2024

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Critical Role: Bells Hells--What Doesn't Break parent’s guide: what’s inside

Medium confidence

Substance use

What it offers

Educational value

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This prequel novel explores the dark past of an undead character, Laudna, with significant emotional and psychological weight including abuse, trauma, and body horror. While the story ultimately emphasizes resilience and hope, the journey involves sustained themes of emotional manipulation, physical danger, and existential dread that suit older teens rather than younger readers. The character-driven narrative rewards perseverance and self-determination, but the content is deliberately dark and emotionally mature.

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Uncover the lost years of Critical Role’s unrelentingly upbeat undead spellcaster in this original prequel novel to Laudna’s adventures with Bells Hells. For as long as she can remember, Laudna has had a friend. A mentor. A little voice whispering in her cropped ear, promising that, no matter how monstrous she becomes... Uncover the lost years of Critical Role’s unrelentingly upbeat undead spellcaster in this original prequel novel to Laudna’s adventures with Bells Hells. For as long as she can remember, Laudna has had a friend. A mentor. A little voice whispering in her cropped ear, promising that, no matter how monstrous she becomes or how far she wanders, there will always be someone to guide her. And so, Laudna is content. But the thought of more—of life, of love, of the magic stirring in her still veins—is unrelenting in its familiarity. More is the dream of the young girl trapped behind the bloodstained walls of Whitestone, and the nightmare of the woman who now stalks the woods outside them. More, Laudna’s little voice reminds her, is dangerous. From Tal’Dorei to Marquet, the world is infested with heroes destined to rid their kingdoms of creatures like Laudna. The little voice is right, she knows. But still, she thinks of more. And when she reaches for that dream, what reaches back will change everything. Written by USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, Critical Role: Bells Hells—What Doesn’t Break delves into the unexplored years before Laudna joined up with the crew of Bells Hells, chronicling her departure from Whitestone and her solo adventures on the road to Jrusar.

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  • Fiction
  • Strong Character Development
  • Loveable Characters
  • Diverse Characters
  • Character driven
  • A mix driven
  • Not Diverse Characters
  • dark
  • emotional
  • hopeful
  • Adventurous
  • mysterious

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