Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

33 reviews

tovetott's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Holy shit... Holy fcking shit....

I had waved off this book as a "booktok book" for so long after seeing it get so much hype, but I'd like to formally apologize to every time I did. 

The politic plays... the betrayals... the foreshadowing and callbacks and details and secrets, everything caught me off guard and hit me like a punch all the same every time, despite me throwing guesses and theories the entire time as I went. As soon as I thought I had an idea of where things were going, I found myself faced with a detail I had dismissed so easily when it had been staring me in the face the entire time; the phrase "anyone can betray anyone", to give one, heartbreakingly, embarassingly brutal example. The epilogue had me throwing myself across my room gasping in shock and writing Caps-lock notes into my Storygraph notes, even though I SHOULD HAVE FUCKING SEEN IT COMING. AND YET ??? 😭😭😭😭

I hope the quality holds up through the rest of the series, but one of the people I follow have rated the following books with 3-stars after this 5-star one, so I'm gonna stay cautiously optimistic. 

I have not yet finished The Cruel Prince-series (I'm still in the middle of The Wicked King), but I would assume that if you liked that one, you'll devour this book/series just as quickly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Gun violence

karinreadsalot's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

Minor: Gun violence

strawberrytheauthor's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was exactly what I expected it to be and was therefore fabulous! It’s a really easy and predictable read. I am excited to read the rest of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Mass/school shootings, and Alcohol

bookwyrm242's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

caitlyndblunt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

aammeess's review

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Alcohol

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

jpt007's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I have seen this book in every store for years now, so I though I’d finally take a few days to read it. I actually really loved it, while it did take a second to get into it, and I am looking forward to reading book 2.

Characters- 3.5/5*
They were interesting characters. Obviously the author put a lot of thought into creating them.

I especially liked the fact she didn’t have Cal join then in the end it felt very true to his nature.

I sometimes feel like Mare wasn’t 3D, that she was the classic protagonist you could put yourself into. So that would be my one complaint.

Conflict- 4/5*

So the revolution was the overall conflict.

I really thought it was clever and interesting but it took awhile to get there.

Plot- 3/5*
This is the category I really have problems with. Don’t get me wrong the plot was engaging but the story structure was off. It felt like too much exposition but at the same time too little. It felt like there were 5 different climaxes. At one point I even thought the book must be basically over and then it felt like we went into book 2. 

Setting- 3.5/5* 
It seems interesting but I want more details. This was a key part of the exposition that I felt was lacking. They told us about a bunch of locations but didn’t describe them. I don’t need Scott Fitzgerald but I would like some description to build my world view.

Theme- 4/5*
That’s what draws me to keep reading. The heart of this book is its theme. Bringing up this topic of what differences make you inferior vs superior. I think it’s a really interesting was the author brings it up with silver blood and red blood. Hopefully they Connie to build on it on the second book.

Overall Score: 3.6/5⭐️

I would recommend this look to anyone who loves dystopian and fantasy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Gun violence, Torture, Violence, and War

joylovestoread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book was amazing and I 100% recommend reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Cursing and Gun violence