Reviews tagging 'Death'

Levende steden by Philip Reeve

26 reviews

chriswaldron15's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Death of parent

reggiethebird's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.5

So they killed a character towards the end of this book ,

killed the dog

and I could tell it was meant to be an big emotional moment, but then I asked my self "What did this character do before this? Why does their death matter? Why did their action matter again?" And I couldn't really answer any of these. Then they killed more characters, and I just asked the same questions again, with the same lack of answers. I'm pretty sure the book would have ended roughly the same without the actions of our two main characters, or even our 5 or so side characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Torture

jenny_d's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

theaceofpages's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

The world has become a wasteland and cities have become mobile in order to survive. In the past, the landscape was salvaged but now that resources are running low, cities have started relying on each other to survive. And not in a wholesome cooperative kind of way. Larger cities chase down and eat smaller cities (which at least have the advantage of speed) in order to survive.

I don't know if it's just a me thing, but it almost felt like there was a bit of a mismatch between the writing style and the contents of this book. The writing felt more like what you typically find in books for younger teens, while the contents themselves were rather grisly. I loved the world building though. It's a very unique idea and I'm definitely interested in learning more about it, even if everything else was far more simplistic than I expected it to be. I haven't decided if I will continue the series yet, but the world its set in is definitely its strong point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, Xenophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

To build on some of the content warnings: Confinement/ slavery:

Our main characters are captured and kept locked up with the intention to sell them as slaves

Xenophobia:

Those who don't live on cities are seen as lesser and uncivilised

Colonisation:

Big cities literally eat and take over others

xbookno1's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

An interesting tale in a future world ruled by "Municipal Darwinism". For YA/teen readers. At some points the book felt fast, not going into depth enough even though the world building and characters would offer much opportunity to do so.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

merlucito's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.5

 This was a fun and nostalgic adventure. Honestly, I'm a little bias because I watched the movie a few months ago because of Robert Sheehan and loved the world and the characters so much that I wanted to read more about them, and also because they never made the other movies I wanted to know how the story continues. So... I loved Tom. And Hester.

Katherine was cute, and her ending hurt, I wasn't expecting it. And also Dog, my god, that was sad, poor thing, he deserved better.

The plot wasn't a big thing for me, but I still enjoyed, but honestly what I enjoyed the most was the ride, the adventure, the traveling and knowing how different parts of the world adapted. I eager to keep going with the series. It's a nice break from adult epic fantasy and sci-fi. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Slavery

njschaal's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Cursing

k_galloway's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Minor: Slavery

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Trafficking, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Death of parent

laurine_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism