Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski

15 reviews

thedarkfields's review

emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Grief, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Animal death, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent

Colonisation, war, and slavery are main themes in this series. This book also includes a great deal of manipulation, emotional/physical abuse, some gaslighting, and off-page references to terrible things

(this includes brief references to killing a dog, repeated mentions of a murder made to look like a suicide, and a decent word count spent discussing a war tactic leading to starvation and genocide)

. It's dark.

There's one scene (fairly early on in the book) during which someone is briefly but brutally tortured in explicit detail. Can be skipped without missing plot. There are other brief references to torture but none I can recall that are explicit.

tale_of_tales's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Torture

Moderate: War

Minor: Cursing, Medical content, and Kidnapping

karly_ackley's review

adventurous dark sad tense 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Torture, Murder, and War

wildflowerleahg's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Suicide and War

Minor: Slavery

katherina_lei's review against another edition

adventurous 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

I really liked this book. The writing was beautiful and captured so many emotions. I was rooting for all the loveable characters all the time. This book is tragic but also so fascinating and I can't wait to see how the trilogy ends! The bind the main characters are in seem impossible, and I am curious to see how the story progresses and if there will be any sort of happy ending.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: War

fifth_magpie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: Slavery

gabbygarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol

ajboyd_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional lighthearted mysterious 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

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Classism

reiki's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

emiliaphrodite's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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

4.25

kestrel is a bad liar, bruh. i’m a little annoyed that twice arin got offers of sex from women who gave no hint that they found him attractive, and that is honestly the only reason this is not a five-star review. the angst was so incredible that i’m going to read the next one.

you can definitely tell the author was discovering her queer identity. the emperor and the general were giving gay longing for a straight man who is uncomfortable with it. the gods are able to be any gender. it’s not unheard of to be gay. love it.

kestrel and arin are destiny 💖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture