Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Will of the Many by James Islington

23 reviews

laios's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

mice_are_nice's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Cultural appropriation

aducharme4's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Self harm, and Colonisation

artemisd6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book had me so enthralled. It took a bit to get into, but when I got hooked, I was all in. This has mystery, magic, and a lot of truly deep thoughts and exploration of power. I loved the reimagining of technology as a function of people and their will. The use of Will as the key driver to talk about how we interact with power, policy, and economy, really had me enraptured. Loved this book and I’m so excited to get to read the next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

lis_allenwalker's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Booklist mentioned that this was reminiscent of Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson but refreshingly quick paced and I could not agree more. This had everything I wanted in a book (excellent characters, world, and an engaging and quick moving plot) and nothing I didn’t (weird creatures, over-explaining literally everything)

Usually I hesitate to recommend books this size but yeah, this was a 10/10, and is on the shortlist of my favorite books of all time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide, Violence, and Murder

iono's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Xenophobia, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia, Torture, Vomit, Cultural appropriation, and War

kirstenpod_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Suicide and Vomit

halebop's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

Very unique world building and it really teases at a lot more going on beneath the surface that presumably we'll discover in the rest of the series. MC manages not to veer completely into being too overpowered due to his rage and grief. Interesting array of characters. Very mysterious plot that will keep you guessing and trying to puzzle things out. Very much looking forward to the rest of the series coming out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

loup's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-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: Bullying, Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

casideea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

Very interesting concept, but I feel like the world building was not clear. The ending was a bit confusing as well. I will read the next one when it comes out.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Child death, Death, and Death of parent