Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

5 reviews

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Fire/Fire injury

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, Car accident, and Alcohol

jayden_chancery's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

I will start off by saying that this book was read as a class assignment. I know that many of my classmates enjoyed the book even went on to read the rest of the series.

That said, this book was not good. IN MY OPINION.

I found many if not all of the characters extremely unlikable. And every time I started to like one of them they would do something to ruin that. I couldn’t even have a favorite character because of how bad all of them behaved. And this is not to say that misbehaving characters can’t be a good thing, in many books it helps keep you entertained and create new problems. But in this story it felt like it was simply written in for the heck of it.

Throughout the book but especially in the beginning, characters and/or the narrator would say weird or inappropriate things. Such as

when both characters and the narrator refer to a TEENAGE girl as having a large chest

.  It was gross to read and listen too (yes i read both versions).

The plot? What plot? SERIOUSLY WHAT WAS THE PLOT?? I couldn’t tell you. I understand that this is the first book in a series, but you could at least get us to an exciting part before we’re 4/5 of the way through the book! It was boring and, honestly, if it wasn’t assigned reading it would have been in my DNF list very quickly. 

Overall, it wasn’t entertaining, it wasn’t well written, the characters made me annoyed and grossed out, and i did not like it. I will not be reading the rest of the series. But my classmates have said that “it gets better”. I would sure hope so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

olivia_faye's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

felt a lot like the target audience was 13 year old boys, not a bad thing but i am, in fact, not a 13 year old boy. once it started getting a little more ~philosophical~ though i started to enjoy it more. there isn’t much romance which i personally enjoy, but the bit that there is just feels a little bleh. like

the main love interest is his childhood friend who he didn’t start developing feelings until she started to “look more like a woman” 😵‍💫 and then their relationship flourished off shared trauma which i also don’t find very appealing

but hey, maybe that’s just me. i liked it enough to continue the series though!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Trafficking and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual assault and Murder

booklife4life's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail