Reviews tagging 'Death'

Morning Star by Pierce Brown

79 reviews

mnkowalczyk3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense slow-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

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Such an incredible end to the first trilogy in the Red Rising series. I truly cannot explain how fully this book encompasses the heart of the human experience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and War

meganemarshall's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

The only issue I have with this book is that it is just straight up and then down and then up and then down in terms of plot. It's literally something good happens, then something bad happens. This book was so emotional. I cried a billion times. I wanted to throw the book across the room. I just loved it. It was the perfect mix of action plus character development.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and War

reddeddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Hate crime, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, and Pregnancy

miorinsa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Spoiler: Darrow and Mustang get their HEA!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

kiwij96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.75

This book was immediately well-paced. From the firat page I was pretty much sucked back into this universe. It was very heavy on the politics at times but it worked. Compared the Red Rising and Golden Son, there wasn't a page that wasn't relevant to the story. For sure a couple of paragraphs could have been edited out here and there, but generally speaking, the whole story flowed well chapter to chapter. This book hurt me with some of the character deaths, redemptions, and betrayals, but that makes for a great story.

Where this book loses marks is the battle scenes. Sometimes they are just too...wordy, or like they're trying to achieve too much. I cannot conceptualise half of the scenes in my head, which maybe is a me-problem, but sometimes I just can't picture it and it brings me out of the story a bit. (There was also that "Bye Felicia" moment and I actually took damage from cringing.)

HIS NAME IS PAX 🥹😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, and Cannibalism

callieisreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense 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? Yes

4.5

So fucking good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and War

specialbread's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad 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

5.0

The third and final book of the Red Rising Trilogy ends with a bang. I enjoyed this book so very much. It ties the strings together so neatly that you wouldn't have to read the next trilogy after this if you don't want to (the Iron Gold trilogy). Well-thought-out space battles with plenty of violence. Even if you are moving on to the next era of books in the series, this is a fine end to Darrow's story.

From the start, when he was just a lowly red, to the end, where he is among the greatest iron golds, it has been a journey

. I have enjoyed Darrow's character arc he is now one of the better characters in the books, as I almost hated him in the first book. I thoroughly enjoyed this installment, it is the best in a series of great books. This has made me want to stop reading the rest of the books due to being scared they will not be as good. You can draw your ending to the story without reading further, but I must read the other books! This author is GREAT!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Blood, and War

Moderate: Sexual content

alyse_turns_pages's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

5.0

Wow. What an epic ending to this trilogy (yes i know there’s 2 more books later). This story had me shocked and gasping so many times. I felt so drawn to all the characters…even the ones I was supposed to not like Sir Pierce had me thinking like Darrow about a few of them. The adrenaline I felt while reading this is unreal-I’m not sure if the tummy ache I got was the book or all the gummy bears I was stress eating while reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Medical content, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Genocide, Hate crime, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

blueberry0531's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Suicide