Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

8 reviews

bmhbubbles's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug abuse

laurajordensharris's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

katrinarose's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

Exact same formula as his previous books except the stakes of this book were much lower and less thrilling than previous books. Entertaining nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

marianneiriss's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

librariangeorgia's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

Out of the 3 books i've read so far, this is my 2nd favourite.

I loved the codebreaking side of the story and the little mysteries throughout the book. Again, like in ANGELS AND DEMONS, I didn't care for the religion elements.

There are 2 books left in this series but I feel like I may be getting bored of these books. I may have to take a break before picking up the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Drug use, Torture, Transphobia, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

lilybuddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

Oh jeez. I started this book for the 3rd time because I never understood it well and I hoped the new TV series would give me some handholds. It did! But the book is very different than the show. And quite a bit longer. With a lot of explanations. And more explanations. And expositions. Sometimes multiple times about the same thing.

Sometimes I just skipped entire paragraph because Langdon was waxing poetic about a building that didn't matter for the plot.

I get now why I could hardly follow it the first 2 times. I could barely follow it now. The story gets buried beneath the author's apparent need to prove how much research he did, which is an impressive amount, it has to be said. 

All in all, I'm glad I read it again but I'm less enthused than I thought I'd be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

laurawoods13's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, and Torture

emmiekay's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

It was a great easy read. The beginning did feel like the author was trying to become a Mason by kissing ass. The main character comes across so dumb it doesn't make sense why Peter Solomon thought he would be fit for solving the mystery. Katherine was the true hero and honestly the book would have been 4 stars if she was the protagonist. But overall I enjoyed it, the ending has stuck with me for a while awarding it 3 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder