Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

30 reviews

my3bb8's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement and Toxic relationship

kirsto's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I forgot how annoying both Tris and Tobias are. Guess they’re really meant for each other! Also, this book in seriously messed up—and not even an interesting, morally ambiguous way, like in a pretty much everyone has murdered or been complicit in the murders of innocent people way. Why were we all reading this in middle school!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Vomit

elderflower's review against another edition

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

3.0

Disappointing sequel to an amazing book :( 
I feel like 60% of this book is just violence so… yeah not for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, and Death of parent

More content warnings: terrorism, PTSD, nightmares

rayne_1906's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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

2.75

Audiobook - In some ways, I enjoyed this book more than the first book - in others, I really disliked it. The actual plot is interesting enough, if not a little slow. However, the whole thing is interspersed with arguments and conflicts between the two main characters that started off okay but got boring really fast. Also, Tris becomes almost unbearable as a quirky main character, all self-deprecating and cannot see anything beyond herself at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, and Alcohol

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense fast-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? Yes

3.0

I had the feeling I wouldn't like the second book as much as the first one because the most fun part (the training) was completed. And I was right. But I still liked the plot a lot. It didn't drag at all, so much was happening. Sometimes maybe a little too much, too fast. But I really liked how you discovered the different fractions in ... different ways. I especially loved the more sciency, logical part and Tris' curiosity. Liked the twists, the predictable and the surprising ones. And the ending really made me curious for the third book. But I was soooooo disappointed in Tris and Four and too annoyed too often. At least Tris' development was undestandable for the most part. But Four was so different from book 1. He felt like a totally different character. And this really had a huge impact on my overall enjoyment of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Murder

theespressoedition's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

How on earth did I manage to forget so dang much about this book? Rereading it almost felt like reading it for the first time. There were snippets that were still fresh in my mind, but for the most part, I was in the dark. It made it somehow more and less enjoyable. Super strange.

On the one hand, I loved being surprised by some of the elements of the story. There was a lot to the plot that was a total blank in my mind and it was fun to read the action scenes and learn more about the characters again.

I also mostly agreed with "past Stephanie" on the rating. I gave it 3 stars when I first read it and that makes sense. This time around, I raised it a .5 star, but the feelings are pretty much the same: Tris and Four's lack of communication is enough to make me want to tear my hair out, the back-and-forth with betrayals was super confusing, and the amount of triggering content made me slightly queasy. Overall, it just wasn't the most wonderful experience.

That being said, I still really enjoy this series as a whole and it was interesting to dive back into a story that meant so much to me so many years ago!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

desiree_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Blood

tehrissa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming

hannahmayhere's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Death of parent