Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Kriegsklingen by Joe Abercrombie

119 reviews

jess_always_reading's review against another edition

Explicit torture scenes, unlikeable characters, it's just not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

yaxzx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War

spookyjord's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Torture, and Blood

Minor: Slavery

krysley's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

gdwilliams019's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Solid characters. Not enough women though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

bookswithbethx's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

tilla's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

For a long time this was a bit of a tough read for me - I didn’t connect with any of the characters and they were mostly somewhat… unlikable? Interesting but not really someone you wanna root for. What often draws me in are the relations between characters and for most of the book the deeper relationships were hard to find, but still it was a very interesting story and interesting characters and towards the end when everyone sorta were drawn together it all finally connected for me, and now I think I have to finish the series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, and Blood

melissalivanos's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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

Amazingly complex world and characters. Definitely the start of a series with lots of information and setting the scene but I’m really excited to dive more into this world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

deyanira's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Gore, and Classism

Moderate: Sexism and Xenophobia

Minor: Torture