Reviews tagging 'War'

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

5 reviews

plsnotanotherdamselindistress's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious

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

2.75

So...this wasn't what I expected...

The story definitely contains a strong and confident fMC, but our girl is not likable...more like absolutely crazy and ehmm delusional.
It wss also great that the mMC supported her and acknowledges her wit seeing her as his equal, but the morals...

Both characters have a few things in common e.g. morally more than grey (as in anti heroes - figthing against a Robin Hood kinda guy, wanting to battle and in some way colonize other countries, working on strategies to oppress people), not reasonable and so on.

And while I can like morally grey characters you really feel like you are on the wrong side of the story in this book and I have now learned that is something I can not ignore (unreasonable killing - yes, this - no).

I liked that the society was diverse.
Not a fan of the ages chosen for the MCs even though it seemed fitting to how immature they acted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Classism

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content and War

twiglt's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, and Murder

Moderate: Grief

Minor: War

haley49's review against another edition

adventurous

• 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? Yes

4.0

The characters are bad people but you still root for them??? They are casually down with murder and classism but are kind of feminists so it’s okay??? 
My feelings on the main characters are mixed but I loved them evolving  together and realizing how alike they were, The pace felt natural and the story was interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, War, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Medical content, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, and Alcohol

smazzeo96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious relaxing 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: War

ednam0dewannabe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Blood

Minor: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Murder, War, Alcohol, Car accident, Cursing, Child death, and Child abuse