Reviews tagging 'Violence'

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

35 reviews

aurora4847's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

rebb003's review

adventurous funny hopeful fast-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

Minor: Child death and Violence

c_dmckinney's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Classism

a_kt's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Sadly, this book was a disappointment. The premise and "alternate history" feel of it is so intriguing, but the execution is just... not good. The characters are so two-dimensional they felt like parodies of actual people. The plot was fairly nonsensical. It was supposed to revolve around this whole revenge situation- but it was really unclear as to who the revenge was for? I think there was supposed to be some big twist/reveal towards the end of the book but the way it was written I had a moment of, "Wait, I thought we already knew this? Didn't they already tell us this was what happened? Or was it just so obvious I subconsciously 'figured out' the twist a while ago?" There was a romantic subplot, which had exactly negative chemistry. The end of the book ended up having one deus ex hippo after another. Needless character deaths. Lots of things that were very poorly explained. Just about the only saving grace of this book was that it was very short. 

I'm going to start collecting books into a new subgenre called "YA novels except they say the f-word sometimes" which consists of books that are written at a middle-school level but advertised as adult fiction simply because some curse words are thrown around. That's exactly how I would describe this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Racial slurs and Transphobia

avacadosocks's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

black_cat_iiix's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

b_mossy's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

quinnyquinnquinn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

below_average_baker's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Some nice representation, I didn’t follow every line of the plot but it was fast paced enough that it didn’t entirely matter

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail