Reviews tagging 'Violence'

War by Laura Thalassa

68 reviews

regent_ace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

eclecticallyreading's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

3.5

This one I liked more than Pestilence up until the 

pregnancy trope

hit and then it definitely lost me. I feel like there was less theological thinking (a thing I liked in the first one), which was a bummer I would have been interested in more. Overall I thought it was repetitive and I don't know that half of Miriam's escape attempts really did much to move the plot along? Overall it was just fine. Will still probably revisit for an academic project though! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Pregnancy, and War

quirkykay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Vomit, and Pregnancy

shannonreese's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

chelbelle122's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.75

If we are ranking Horseman Husband's it's a close call so far

1. Pestilence 
2. War

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

smartcookiesca's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

bookish_ghost_girl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Murder

bunnybaby_hop04's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Confinement, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Abandonment

spatterson7's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

localghhost's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

I liked this one significantly more than the first. 

War is a complicated character and I enjoyed that he was described as being the most human due to being born from humans. I thought he was interesting and I actually liked that he liked Miriam right away. While I did feel that he was a “bad guy” overall, I felt that his motivations made more sense, given that War only exists because of humans. However, the whole zombies thing really took me out of it. It just felt like a diversion from the genre and plot.

This book had endearing characters, a more interesting and complex theme and a better plot overall. Some of the plot devices didn’t make sense or took me out of the story, but overall pretty good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Body horror and Slavery