Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

18 reviews

acraftyknitter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, and Death of parent

haddybea14's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

It's ok to want more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Torture, and Violence

mi_chlo'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Grief

vic_to_ria's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This was a fun read, I liked a lot of the humour our main character gives and I personally related to her character and how she handles her trauma and emotional responses to opposition or media expectations.
This gave me like the Umbrella Academy vibes in the sense that we are picking up after the chosen ones have saved the world and what their lives looked like after the fact as they were just teenagers at the time of triumph.
The mystery is good and there isn’t a time in the plot where we don’t know what we are doing- there is always something to do or to learn as our main character can’t stay still for too long and I loved that.
My one issue is I felt the ending was rushed and we didn’t get a satisfying ( to me ) explanation for the main mystery

aka our main character being a main interest of the villain (the Dark One) and why he consistently sought her out and targeted her out of all the chosen ones- I didn’t feel like that was a satisfying ending as it’s mentioned in flashback only and not expanded upon

Overall this was a great superhero trope twist I enjoyed and wished we got a little bit more of just to properly flush out the villain and the mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gore, Violence, and Death of parent

rynaissanceenby'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

3.25

This was a pretty good book, but not amazing. I liked the premise, and the overall story was enjoyable. There were a number of plot holes or just things that seemed out of place throughout. I also didn't feel like the prose raced across the page and left me craving the next chapter the way I would expect a book of this genre to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Torture, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Racism

CW: Zombies

ellamc's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.75

A very interesting plot, I enjoyed that they did not seem to just have worked everything out just because they were the Chosen Ones. However the ending was very rushed, I'm unsure if Roth plans to write a sequel or not but even still the

meshing of the worlds and the group reuniting with Inez and then splitting up happened way too quickly

I would have preferred a few extra chapters fleshing out the end rather than just cutting it off.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Medical content, and Death of parent

unboxedjack's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bookwookie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gore, Racism, and Torture

Minor: Suicide

joshuas_space's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Cancer

elle_dee's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail