Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Der Erste, der am Ende stirbt by Adam Silvera

200 reviews

lizkamiller's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Minor: Homophobia

voldycat'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual content

ann_s's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Medical content

sabrinaaa720's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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? No

4.0

Beautiful story, well written, slightly predictable.

I think the writing of the sex scene left something to be desired with its lack of justification.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Car accident

spicierleaf's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Unfortunately I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped, even less so than the other book. It felt too much like a rehash of the first (or I suppose it's the 2nd of the trilogy) book, grappling with death and an unsuspected romance. 
I would've liked to see more about the ways Death-Cast affected other people, and more about it overall. 
To be clear, I did enjoy Valentino and Orion as characters, but I would only recommend it if you enjoyed the first (2nd) book.

It was nice to see Rufus and Mateo again!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Gun violence

Moderate: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

nyx03's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

It's a little slow at the beginning but holy cow it had me bawling. I love love love Valentino and Orion...Just wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, and Car accident

justmehayleyb's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Grief

arlorees's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I've not found two characters this annoying in a long time. I'm not sure if it was the writing, the voice over, or a mix of both but somehow the tone of the whole book just felt insufferable. Nobody can be that earnest and wistful for 24 hours straight. The voices of the two main characters were just too sincere all the way through for me to enjoy this. 

Also, the author seems to have forgotten what "show don't tell" means. Never heard more monologues in my life - "I am feeling this way because my parents died and I don't want more people to die and I am sad now and I want to do this." It's a boring way to write and I ended up rolling my eyes often when listening to the characters drone on. 

I would not recommend this book. The original was much better, and I didn't even love that one. There's not much that is too different about this story to the original (still two boys who find each other and at least one is a decker and surprise surprise

they fall in love by the end

).

Save your time, find another book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

oolivia123's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

felishacb's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Gun violence

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia