Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Obsidio by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman

15 reviews

at806's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Slavery, Suicide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, War, Confinement, Child death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Death, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, and Genocide

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Obsidio is the third book in the illuminae Files series by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. I really enjoyed the journey that we went on to uncover the rest of the story with

Spoiler

the Betech corporation

attacking the mining planet Kerenza IV and the Heimdal jump station. 

One thing that really bothered me was the argument that kept getting used by the soldiers to justify their actions. Various soldiers and even characters who weren't planet side were basically saying that the citizens of Kerenza IV deserved what was happening to them (they were being starved, murdered, and sexually harassed by the soldiers) because they were there on the planet holding an illegal mining operation in the first place. That' is a BS argument and justification and I wanted to scratch my eyes out every time I heard someone say "but the citizens were here illegally anyways."

The book is long ending at 615 pages and there were some parts that seemed to drag on and on. I honestly don't think the story could have been any shorter because we would have ended up not getting certain information that was vital to the story. I understand why it was as long as it was, I just needed the boring parts to not be so boring. 

Overall this book did not disappoint. This was an action packed sci fi and I'm happy I read the series. I give this 5 out of 5 stars
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I listened to this audiobook for free on Libbyapp.com

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Colonisation, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Suicide, Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Violence, War, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail

eloise__'s review against another edition

3.5

 

Spoiler

Wow there are a lot of death fakeouts in this series.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Medical content, War, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

Minor: Car accident

huntress's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Suicide, Murder, Gun violence, War, Violence, Genocide, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Death of parent, Medical content, and Stalking

erkietheturkey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gun violence, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Genocide, Slavery, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Suicide, Confinement, and Drug use

socialpsysteph's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

I read the second book in December and once I remembered how much I  loved this series, I quickly wanted to pick up the third and final book so I did that as my last book in January. I can't say a ton about this one since it's the final book in the series, it would spoil everthing, but it was a great finale to this fun series. I appreciated that it wasn't afraid to make fun of the fact that the stor is about these young people being heros. There were twists and turns and I had a blast.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death of parent and Death

lauramcc7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Blood, Murder, Death of parent, Gun violence, Grief, and Violence

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Murder, Death, and War

Moderate: Chronic illness and Child death

Minor: Death of parent

camoo3032's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

4.5

Great conclusion to this series. Very cleverly done. Interesting format

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, War, Violence, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Torture

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Confinement, Drug use, War, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child death, Colonisation, Gore, Police brutality, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, and Torture