Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

6 reviews

ccryptid's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Child death, Chronic illness, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Rape

angelsinthesnow's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

• I don’t like Nita
• Her stupid fucking moral dilemmas
• Hypocrite
• Plot was uninteresting 
• Nothing original happened
• Kinda boring
• The kiss was good
• I like kovit
• There’s something really big missing
• The atmosphere I liked is just not there anymore 
• Second book syndrome
• Yay communication 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Gore

vaniavela's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Blood and Torture

joakley101's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

I would’ve liked this book a lot more if Nita didn’t keep making the exact same mistakes over and over. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse

billies_not_so_secret_diary's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.0

 
This is book two of the series, and it picked up after the first book. It was better than the first: a lot more details about the characters, quite a bit of funnies, and the Doctor Who reference was the bomb! 

It was a very quick read (listen). I had a hard time walking away from the story, I had to know what was going to happen. While there were quite a bit of repetitive phrases, lines, and reminders that she wanted to dissect a body and go to school and be the best, the story was a lot more to-the-point even though there were the unnecessary ramblings. 

One of the new characters was interesting, but the MC, I can’t decide if I should like her or hate her, but I would be very afraid of her if our paths crossed. It's a nice change for the MC, while being a good guy, they are also a very bad guy. 

Of course, there is violence, blood, gore, murder, etc, so I don't think it's appropriate for readers under 14. 

I would be giving this book 5 stars, but there was way too much repetitiveness, and it took some enjoyment from the story! 

4 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Torture, and Violence

herohail's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Racism