Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

47 reviews

metaphorsandmisc's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child abuse and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy and Alcohol

page_not_found's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide and Gaslighting

pm_me_book_recs's review against another edition

Dnf @ 50%

Characters are super flat and incredibly immature. The world and magic are all very cool (and air ships!?), but I cannot get past the awful character dialogue and colonizer romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and War

hellavaral's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and War

Minor: Child abuse, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

literarymary95's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.0

This book was really hard to get into. I felt like the action wasn't very action-y and the enemies to lovers felt forced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

tierneymichele's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-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

4.75

Only reason I took away 0.25 is because there are far too many instances of run-on sentences that are filled with adjectives describing something. At one point there were 9 lines of a paragraph that were all entirely 1 sentence, and over half of the words were just adjectives describing something. The meaning gets lost very quickly when you're not even able to remember how the sentence started or what is being described anymore. 

I also personally had a hard time getting through the first couple chapters for the same reason; it was all descriptions, military lingo, and words that exist only in this world that didn't have sufficient context for me to understand. I've read books like this before and just assumed I would get more explanation later, but I will say most of the things I did 't understand in those chapters seemed mostly irrelevant by the time I got to the thick of the plot.

With that being said, I really did like the book a lot and am excited for the next one. I didn't realize until the end that it was Thea's very first book which is very impressive to me, and added to me keeping a higher rating. The slow burn really slow burned in this one, it was agonizing in the best way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child abuse and Physical abuse

hannahnate's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad 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? No

5.0

If I could give a book 20 stars it would be this one. I was obsessed within the first 15 pages -

this book is FR ENEMIES TO LOVERS & SLOW BURN IN THE BEST WAY BUT MY GOD THE TENSION (only a little spice at the end but it was perfect).

It was also surprisingly funny even though it’s about war between the two countries. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Sexual content

potalian's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent

maryrosem's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-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? Yes

3.75

The first half contained a lot of events back to back with some time hops. That part felt like it advanced very quickly, which made normal-paced the second half feel a bit slow at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

silentquercus's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, and War