Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Desconexión by Neal Shusterman

57 reviews

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion and Sexual harassment

choco_bunbun's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, and Trafficking

Moderate: Abandonment

mokiethe_dog34's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Very good book. Well written and brilliantly paced. However, I am now traumatised and very concerned for what was going on in the author’s head when he wrote this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

kaitoro_walker13's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Strange, and in places horribly boring, this book suffered from a very laid-back approach to the editing. Parts of the book felt incredibly fluffy, and there weren't many redeeming qualities.  Interesting concept, not very well executed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Minor: Genocide

cursed_sapphire's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Abortion

madisonrhoff's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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? No

3.5

This book is very depressing. Definitely not a lighthearted read but good book nonetheless. But dystopian but feels like it’s in the near future. I like the different characters and their dynamics. I thought the ending wrapped up everything well and I enjoyed the overall storyline. Just a solid YA dystopian book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Medical content

Moderate: Child death and Violence

aliensmileyface's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

graphic POV of a person experiencing their body being "unwound" ie all body parts being harvested.

besotted's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Medical content

Moderate: Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.0

The concept is super interesting and unique, and is definitely one of the more creative concepts I've seen from a dystopia. That said, I wished that Shusterman spent more time on world building, especially since there was clearly so much to unpack in the book. Also, the book tried too hard to play to both pro-life and pro-choice audiences, and it made the whole book seem a bit shallow and redundant and made the characters' conflicts seem less impactful. Great idea, but the execution is lacking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Medical content

Moderate: Body horror, Violence, and Abortion

Minor: Sexual assault

add_a_little_spook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence and Trafficking