Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Powerful by Lauren Roberts

38 reviews

enzopudge's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

madi_reads13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

jennh96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

graceev's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse

alex_bastow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

karydiazc's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.75

This book was sad, but we all knew that before we started reading it, and altough it was supposed to be that way, it felt very bland to me.

We were given an instalove once more, where the characters go from "I don't like you" to "you are now the love of my life" in such a short time, and even if it wasn't such a short time in the timeline of the book, it was quite fast for us readers. 
Shure, we saw them warm up to each other, but the jump from warming up to love was so fast I didn't even felt conected to Mak as a character.

Anyway, I think Mak's power is an interesting twist for the future of the books and, if done properly, it can make the story a lot better. Unfortunately I won't find out since I won't keep reading this series. I don't think I'm the target audience for this books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Grief, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Kidnapping and Injury/Injury detail

sweetteaandfiction's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Powerful by @laurenrobertslibrary had me screaming and crying and almost throwing my phone across the room. 

This novella manages to be darker and much more intense than Powerless. 

PROS: 
🪡The people who love the people in the arena 
🩸A different form of hiding in plain sight 
🪡Under appreciated talent 
🩸Power doesn’t save you from poverty 
🪡Enemies to Friends to Lovers 

CONS: 
🩸The King, but make my rage about 200X worse 
🪡Never getting to say goodbye 
🩸Love cut short 
🪡The fact I became so invested when I already knew what was coming. 

🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮 out of 5 sticky honey cakes 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Body horror

amkleintje's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

justasillygirl04's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? No

5.0

Even knowing how it would end, this was gut wrenching. Have Kleenex handy for the last 20 minutes or so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

alinagpfrt's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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 abuse, Death, Torture, Violence, and Blood