Reviews tagging 'Death'

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

152 reviews

mj_86's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Torture, Murder, and War

Minor: Child death, Suicide, and Death of parent

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

caitlyndblunt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

haza's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, War, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gore, Racism, Torture, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicide, Vomit, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

aammeess's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Alcohol

sioxricky's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Death of parent

phantomgecko's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

YA books have been a miss with me lately, but this one was actually good. I liked the writing. The characters made dumb decisions, but that's because they're dumb teenagers. And the decisions were not as dumb as they could've been.

The premise is fun. Feels like fantasy until you realize it's actually dystopian scifi. I mean, it's not crazy original, but it's different from what I've read in ways that make it interesting. The themes are similar/the same but that's how the genre goes.

So that's about all I've got. Dynamic characters, nice writing, interesting enough plot. I'm going to read the rest of them. Well...I'm going to read the main series. Not so sure about the prequels and intermediate novels or whatever. But the main 4.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Classism

becxaa's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: War

bella613's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Took me a few chapters to get into it, and the story was very predictable, but it was entertaining. The beginning of the book kind of dragged, and the premise has definitely been done, and in better ways. It was like every ~girl finds out she has superpowers and learns to control them~ story mixed with every ~dystopian country in an oppresive civil war needs teenage girl to be the face of a rebellion against cruel leadership~ story. But there's nothing wrong with that, and YA readers eat that stuff up. I wish I could have read this in middle school. It still would have been predictable, but my complaints for this book are also true of the hunger games and divergent, and I loved those back then. I did enjoy listening and I think I would have loved it if I were the age it's meant for (like 10 years ago). 
I will definitely be checking out the rest of the series. I hope that we will get to know Mare's brothers better, that Cal will become a round character, and that we'll get more unique plot points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism