Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

103 reviews

kzarate's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and War

brianag323's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Abortion, and War

rockshaw22's review against another edition

adventurous informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and War

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

kenny_2288's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

madsmcw_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative mysterious 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? No

5.0

The Rose Code is a WWII story that takes place at Bletchley Park where they were responsible for decoding enemy correspondence. And let me tell you these people were incredible. I loved this take on the era because it's unlike any story I've read from the era! There's a lot going on, for 75% of the story there's dual timelines and multiple POVs but it flowed so well. I never felt like I wanted to be reading the other timeline or a different POV because it was so perfectly paced, and for a 600+ page book that's not always easy to do. Quinn does a great job of keeping things historically accurate and changing details when necessary to move the story. There are obviously a lot of content warnings as this is a story set during war time so please take care with those.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and War

Moderate: Cancer, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, and Alcohol

jenna11's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault

author2223's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and War

Moderate: Racial slurs

jjohnston_05's review against another edition

• 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Blood

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

The way I made so many notes on this book and I barely remember what happened, can't remember the character's names and I finished this in one day even though I found it kind of boring?? I think I found the audiobook kind of addictive because of the narrator or maybe it was the writing idk 

Osla, Beth and Mab.
 

What I found interesting is how there's mention of Prince Phillip of Greece and that he was dating one of the main characters. 

I felt so sorry for Beth because she grew up with this abuser mother but at the same time she made me so mad!! I can't stand people like her. 

By 20% I knew this was kind of boring lmao but I just kept going. 

I don't like it when the story is going back and forwards and it was annoying here. 

I feel like Osla could've been the one with a more interesting storyline because she was dating the Prince, but suddenly Mab took the focus with her husband and then Beth was supposed to be a bigger main character in the end with her finding a traitor, but I just didn't care about any of the girls to be honest. 

Omg Beth is actually such a f*cking terrible friend I had forgotten about this!! After all the girls did for her!! Because

she knew where the freaking bomb was going to hit and  she knew both her friends, including the husband and daughter of one of them, were going to THAT place and she said nothing about it?? 

This book is called The Rose Code, and that freaking code just mattered in the very last chapters lol 

By half of this book this was a 3 star, but now I think this might be a 2 stars which for me means it was just okay. And honestly I felt bad because I saw that half of the ratings are 5 star for this book lmao HOW and WHY. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual assault

Sexual assault: One of the main characters had to fight off some guys.

Sexual content: This woman at 17 had sex. This other woman gave an oral to some man. The girls have a conversation about sex. This woman has sex with her husband.

Racism: This man has dark skin (can’t remember where he’s from) and his father in law asks if he has N blood.

Death, child death, grief: This woman looses her husband and daughter in a bombing.

Cursing: There’s A LOT of this when they fight.

kailiyahknight's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and War

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis