Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

52 reviews

day_m18's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

richardlvargas's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

One of the best, most intense thrillers - perfect for fans of The Hunger Games who desire something more. It's so dark and you get invested in this entire class of students.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Mass/school shootings, and Abandonment

capitan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lady_bountiful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Rape and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

loudonuts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

rainbow_narwhal'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? No

3.5

The book was great. I read the translation by Nathan Collins and some things must have been lost in translation. The writing seemed clunky at times. Some of the chapters introducing new characters only for them to meet their demise on the next page became formulaic and super repetitive. I did skip/skim over these chapters. 
The main characters were interesting to some extent. Noriko was unfortunately written not well. She was a damsel in distress for the most part. Quiet, shy, and submissive with a lack of identity and hardly any background story when so much was dedicated to fleshing out other characters. I was so disappointed that at

the end of the book when she escapes and we are told second hand about how she strongly held and pulled Shuya up onto the ship through the strong waters and she kills a bunch of soldiers.

her moments of bad-assery are told to us second hand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

cozyscones's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault

vandistarrr's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

livia_jewel's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Suicide

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I knew I would like this since I really liked the movie years ago, but I'm so glad that I absolutely loved the book!

Did I remember all ~50 characters? No! But the reading pace kept me flying through it and the 20ish that were most important were definitely memorable. The size of the book flew by with the pacing of the short, intense chapters.

This new translation is more action-packed than the original (I compared line by line with the audiobook of the original English translation). You can tell this translator has worked on manga and video games before because the fight scenes are so much smother. But whichever version you have, read it.

What a thrilling, unexpectedly emotionally charged, bloody, anti-fascist roller coaster. This is the inspiration behind Hunger Games and battle royale style video games, but way more politically incendiary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Car accident