Reviews tagging 'War'

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

45 reviews

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

What a meta read this was. A really well done time loop/travel story. All the little reveals had me gasping aloud and I feel immense sadness for our main characters. I also liked the little tidbits of our world reflected in the library and just the whole "whose the real enemy" thought experiment 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kmedusa's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and War

_nayak's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Genocide, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Death of parent

novel_nibbles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

You know when people refer to a match as a game of two halves, well this book felt like that, except it was more 70/30. While I enjoyed the narration and found elements of both POV interesting It was very slow until approx.  70% of the way through. I was enjoying the book enough to complete it (3/5) but I was pretty certain that I wasn’t going to read the next one. Then in the final third or so Lawrence pulled all his carefully laid threads together for the big reveal (4/5) and  now I am committed to finding out more about the library what happens next for the characters (I’ve downloaded the second audio book!) 

Over all I give this book 3.5 stars. I hope the sequel builds on the momentum of the final third and quickly unravels more of the library’s secrets

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

drjoannehill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

5.0

Fantasy but could be set in the distant future. Over thousands of years there's a cyclical battle between two forces to control a city that holds all knowledge, in books in a nearly infinite library. Great world building, plenty to think about regarding the value of knowledge vs. wisdom, well done characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Violence, Kidnapping, and War

Minor: Slavery and Injury/Injury detail

aed2655's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.0

I enjoyed rereading it just as much as the first time. Although Livira is a bit of a Mary Sue.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Kidnapping, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

idkimoutofideas's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, War, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia

nina_rae_131's review against another edition

adventurous 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

This defines my taste in books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Genocide

Moderate: Death, Violence, Trafficking, Death of parent, and War

srm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

4.0

Well written and an interesting enough set up, but I'll never completely love anything with elements of time travel. My own fault for not reading reviews, though. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Death, Violence, Grief, and War

dkamada's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Time is trippy and so is love

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism