Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Illuminae by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman

62 reviews

lava_crown's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, War, Cannibalism, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

stevi_nicole's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

at806'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Death, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Murder, Violence, Blood, Gore, Suicide, Child death, Gun violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Pandemic/Epidemic

booksawyer's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

I finished this book at 12:54 AM because it was so good.

I first tried reading Illuminae when I was in 8th Grade, and for some unimaginable reason I DNF’d it after about 200 pages. I don’t think I really understood what was going on.

Now, as a college student who has read a lot more books since then, this book was everything! I loved Kady, Ezra and many members of the supporting cast.

I chose to read this book physically while listening to the audiobook, and I loved that method. It was the perfect balance of the visual formatting of the book with the brilliant audio production. Highly recommend this method if it is available to you! 

This book shocked me, excited me, and devastated me through many twists and turns. I felt triumph and failure as the characters experienced ups and downs. This book is so engaging and brilliantly told. 

I don’t consider myself a Sci-Fi person. I can’t think of any Sci-Fi books I’ve read beyond teen dystopia, but this book certainly was my cup of tea and it makes me excited to pick up more from this genre. 

Overall, Illuminae is a must read and I can not recommend it enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Child abuse

raventheclaw19's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Illuminae was a fantastic book and I can’t wait to read the rest of the series. I first read the Aurora Cycle trilogy, and I loved it so much that I had to read the rest of Kristoff’s and Kaufman’s works. And boy, am I having a time!
Illuminae is a very YA-friendly sci-fi mystery/thriller (I know it’s not tagged as a thriller, but it is) with minimal swearing (“censored on reports”), and only vague references to sex (jokes about “your sister” and references to acts done prior to the events of the story). 
Take it from someone who normally hates thrillers, this book is good. Admittedly, there’s a lot of death and blood (only a few disturbingly gory parts, though), so do keep that in mind, but I didn’t find it too uncomfortable and I’m normally a very squeamish person. 
Can’t wait for the next book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, and Death of parent

Minor: Confinement, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Self harm

I know it’s a lot of content warnings, so do proceed with caution. I’m not very good with blood/gore, but I only had a couple small parts (see below) that made me uncomfortable. There’s a lot of death, but it’s not vividly gory until about 45% (I think) into the book

Spoiler

when they enter the quarantine bay and 70% through

Spoiler

when the remaining Alexander survivors escape the ship

. For the most part, they just say “there’s blood/dead bodies/screams in the distance” but they don’t go into great detail with every mention of violence.

eloise__'s review against another edition

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

4.0

I like the formatting of it in text chats and transcripts of surveillance footage.

Spoiler

The bit about AIDAN pretending to be Ezra was a bit confusing and I do kinda wish the audience knew about it before Kady found out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, War, Death, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Colonisation, Alcohol, and Child abuse

childoflight's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Violence, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death of parent, Police brutality, Gun violence, Confinement, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

marsh_mall0w's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, Police brutality, Torture, Vomit, and Colonisation

Minor: Medical trauma, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Fire/Fire injury

edie_maeve's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book.
I was not expecting this.
The second I opened it, I was transfixed.
I know that if you look at most of my other reviews with written parts are very positive, but this book really hit the spot.
The relationships and the actions of the characters, epic, and the plot is just phenomenal. There are a couple things I dislike, hence the 4.5 instead of 5 star rating, but the story was well told through this format.
Kristoff and Kaufman are an amazing duo, and their other series, The Aurora Cycle/Aurora Rising series is beautiful as well, and I highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Child death, Blood, and Death of parent

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Holy. Shit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Medical trauma, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Death of parent, and Grief