Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

7 reviews

picotly's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Fantastic anti-war novel with on-the-edge-of-your-seat time travel plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, War, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Gun violence

Moderate: Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Colonisation

Minor: Child death

Tough read but doesn't feel gratuitous.

nittiotvaan's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-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: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Death, Suicide, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Moderate: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Torture

Minor: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pandemic/Epidemic

nekoshka's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Body horror, Gore, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, and Sexual content

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Animal death

anxiousnachos's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

This was a really cool concept: sci-fi war between Mars and corporations on Earth with soldiers who are turned into light to beam them across the galaxy, but sometimes that results in them experiencing the war differently. It raised such interesting questions around culpability in war, power structures, and how people can change cycles of violence. But the writing was a little detached for me and so I didn’t feel very strongly about any of the characters. But very cool premise! 

Content warnings: extreme and graphic depictions of war (inc use of both biological and chemical weapons), torture, blood/gore, violence (inc against civilians and children), death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gore, Blood, Torture, Death, Child death, Gun violence, Violence, and Police brutality

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.0

 

This was confusing in the best way possible. Heavy military sci-fi. Lots of wild time things.

Rep: Latine bisexual trans MC, latine female side character, side character with a prosethetic hand, queer side characters, non-gendered society--no gender roles.

CWs: Abandonment, alcohol consumption, blood, confinement/quaratine, colonization, cursing, death, excrement, fire/fire injury, genocide, gun violence, military brutality, murder, sexual content, torture, violence, war.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and Torture

spoth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racism, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia