Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

La reina roja by Victoria Aveyard

7 reviews

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Racial slurs and Slavery

pastorscratchy1reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing

Really liked this book, but it kind of felt like the typical dystopian series.

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was exactly what I expected it to be and was therefore fabulous! It’s a really easy and predictable read. I am excited to read the rest of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Mass/school shootings, and Alcohol

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring reflective sad 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: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Death of parent

bryelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.0

Very much hunger games vibes of the type of world. There are people with silver blood who are known to have abilities and they are the monarchy. Revolution is coming and the main character goes through a lot to try to help. But she doesn’t always know if she is trusting the right people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mass/school shootings, and War

dorothysbookshelf's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

Minor: Cursing, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

strong themes of terrorism and racism between fictitious groups

nschweitzer21's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is generally fine. It’s engaging enough to be a light read, but I don’t find myself itching to pick up the next one. 

Mare is interesting as a character, and I hope that the next books delves deeper into what her powers truly are and their origins. Cal seems somewhat flat as a character to me. All I got was “loyal military son” from him. Maven was more interesting and

the twist at the end was well done

and adds intrigue to his character. The supporting cast was mostly forgettable. I found myself having to actively think about who someone was when a characters name was mentioned. 

I will keep reading at least the next book in this series to see how it goes. The writing style felt a little slow, but it may have just been due to the need for exposition and world building. Hopefully it picks up more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury