Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

55 reviews

uselesspirateraven's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-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, Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Cursing, Homophobia, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Grief

frawst_disasta_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective 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

We return to the world of Adam, Blue, Ronan, Gansey, and sometimes Noah.  And I never want to leave this world.  Is it full of danger?  Of course.  But it's full of wonder, hope, friendship, young love, and family.

We get a few smaller plot conclusions, which I love.  But my absolute favourite thing are the descriptions, the characters, and the overall plot.  I CANNOT wait to read the conclusion of this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

lokes's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.5

Why does the author hate short people??

Also really disliked her trying to implement a „strong female character“ and writing a white, blonde woman being a man’s pet and being constantly reduced to her body and literally SA‘d - and I hated Greenman even more, because why was every second line of his a really weird sexual reference? Not to mention the protagonists thinking about how to get him to leave the town and deciding to make up fake videos and text messages of Greenman SAing and then killing literal children, because that was not unnecessary, but also totally disrespectful…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

thecandiegirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

kaip'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: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

sk_popo's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense 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

5.0

This book was superb everything I needed from a book. It has a little bit of slow burn romance, a little bit of humor, and a whole lot of mystery and adventure. This book finally delved into Blue, I had been waiting to see how this character could be just as deep and complex as the other characters. We finally get to see her as a main character with complex emotions instead of this practical sidekick. The author invested so much time to bring Blue into the forefront to develop this character when you think about it. Blue’s abilities have forced her to be a sidekick a supporting role. Which is what we had really seen for the last 2 books, we saw a sassy teen with a tendency to be underwhelmed by everything. Then we get to the third book where we now still see this sassy teen, but due to unexpected events that force her to be the hero the we get to see how scared and vulnerable she is, *chef’s kisses*. Plus in this book we finally get to see how Ronan feels about Blue which was exactly what I needed because I was unsure if Ronan saw Blue as another annoyance or as a friend. But Blue isn’t the only character that was due for character development, we finally start to see Adam mature and grow, thank god. His pity party and self sabotaging behavior disguised as pride was getting on my nerves.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

ladythana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence and Violence

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

unicorn3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

4.75

Until now it's by far my favourite book in this series! I loved it from the start until the end. It's really interesting and the characters had a great development which I love to read about in the last book too!

Also Piper and Colin! I really liked them as side characters here too

I'm curious what will happen with the three sleepers who are they? Will they wake Glendower and get their wish? Will Gansey die? 
So many open questions for the last book to close...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny

readwithsarah's review against another edition

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

Still enjoying the series, very curious how it will end. Like the further character development we get in this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Blood