Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Le Livre de M by Peng Shepherd

10 reviews

dkgreads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-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? No

3.75

This book was SAD. I mean, I guess the ending was kinda hopeful, but mostly it made my heart feel heavy and my chest ache.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

ann40's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, and Violence

dev921's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, War, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Confinement, Cursing, and Hate crime

paskendus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

This book made me think about what it means to be a person. What makes a person themselves. Which is not the lightest of themes, but a necessary thing to ponder about. I loved ot for that!
What left me disappointed was the ending, it felt rushed and too glossed over for my liking. It almost felt like an ending to a first book of a series, but it's not. It did not satisfy my curiosity at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

quirkyaquarian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Grief, and Gore

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, and Vomit

katievh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, and Mental illness

kaywaters's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Murder

darkmattersoybean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

joceraptor's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Grief, Suicide, and Violence

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I think this was a case of "it's not you, it's me." 
I honestly just found this book kind of frustrating and left it feeling more confused than when I started - which it just feels like that is not the goal of reading a book... 
I loved the idea that it was a dystopian world and some of the twists were well done, but there were just too many things that didn't work for me. 
I didn't like the characters which makes it really REALLY hard when it's a dystopian... I didn't care if they lived... and they were definitely not developed enough for me. There are 3 main characters whose basic trait is that they are constantly talking about or to someone else. You don't actually learn a lot about the characters themselves. It was frustrating to keep feeling like I didn't care if they lived or died - I should be rooting for dystopian characters to survive!!!! 

I think my biggest issue though were the holes in the story. A lot are spoilery, so I will hide them for now.

There is never any explanation for why the shadows disappear and why that gives humans magic? It made absolutely no sense. And the magic was only seen used as a convenience to get characters out of sticky situations... which I hated. Not to mention, there were no rules for this magic system at all. The only rule is if you use magic then you forget something... that's it. I like magic to have some basis of rules.

 

I think this book had a lot more potential but so many things fell short. Not to mention, the POVs and writing just didn't flow for me. It felt really choppy from one scene to another. I almost dnfed this book, but I wanted to see if it got better. And the ending was so... meh. 
Hopefully you enjoy more than me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, and Vomit