Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis

8 reviews

peskilanim's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Ableism, Death, Blood, Trafficking, Sexual assault, and Classism

Moderate: Gore, Homophobia, and Medical content

booksthatburn's review against another edition

 I found myself much less interested in the the story than in the first book. I'm still uneasy with some of the character choices I mentioned in the first book's review and I couldn't tell when or if they would be resolved. Ultimately, while I'm unable to pin down exactly what I don't like about this book, trying to make myself finish it resulted in a period of several days where I barely read anything and could only handle re-reads. As soon as I officially DNF'd this I was able to read other stuff again. For me, that's enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Violence, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Trafficking, Child abuse, Sexual content, Classism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Medical content, Cursing, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Torture, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Body shaming, Blood, and Gore

Minor: Abandonment, Excrement, Self harm, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Confinement

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Cursing, Death, Grief, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Ableism, Child abuse, Medical content, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Dysphoria and Transphobia

leahschmeah's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, and Gun violence

Minor: Grief and Death

grimdark_dad's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Rape, Torture, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Body horror, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Slavery, and War

beesknees's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

I picked up The Second Rebel immediately after finishing The First Sister. The biggest change for me was an increase in rotating character perspectives, including the addition of Lito's sister Lucinina. Although it took effort to keep the wild events happening to each character in order, I was intrigued by each piece of the story, never wanting to rush through a specific chapter and onto the next character perspective. As the second book in a trilogy, I was expecting heartbreak, which was promptly delivered. 
One thing I appreciate about this series in general, is how despite the many (many) hardships our characters face, there is always at least a small sliver of hope that keeps you rooting for their success. I appreciate Lewis's determination to create diverse characters, presenting various races, cultures, sexualities, and class--even thought I feel that Lewis could do a more delicate job of showing and not telling. I am genuinely looking forward to the final installment of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and War

Moderate: Deadnaming, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Genocide, Blood, and Body horror

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Blood, Body horror, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Slavery, and Trafficking

thegr8estangell's review

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-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

5.0

a fantastic follow up to one of my favourite new series. WOW. It's still queer. It's still in space. and boy did it deliver. I loved every minute of it. The political betrayals were crazy. The fight scenes were so well done. The plot picks up right with the First Sister leaves off. I love am in love with this story. I cannot wait to read the next book. I am dying to know what happens. I need the third book. This story has so many layers, so many points of intrigue. Lewis does a wonderful job at continually expanding her world with her immaculate building style. The only thing that drove me crazy was that there were 4 POVs instead of 3. Adding in that fourth POV made the distance between characters a longer. I kept having to stop and try to remember what happened at the time we saw this character because it was 60 pages ago and a whole hell of a lot more plot points later. I do like how they added character names to each of the chapter headings. That made it much easier to read. The cliff hangers at the end of this story are killing me and I am going to apply for the ARC when it become available. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death, Gore, Grief, Torture, and War