Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi

24 reviews

hayleythegoose's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, and Child abuse

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Sexual content

Minor: Gore, Racism, War, Vomit, Body horror, and Police brutality

winterwriter_9's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual content, Child abuse, and Gun violence

claire_fitzgibbon13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? No

5.0

Another hit from Tahereh. I just love love and the way she presents it. Kenji brings the humour and like him it feels like every character brings something to the table whether it’s for entertainment value or to demonstrate different struggles.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Gun violence and Sexual content

kenzie_simone456's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Death, Torture, Gun violence, Violence, and War

brooketreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

3.5

There was too much going on. Too much twisting of the things we already knew. A character having a new name that we knew for three books. New characters. Everything is happening everywhere.  It all felt like too much.

The ending felt better. Where (almost) everyone was back together, and things seemed to settle down for a minute at least.

Ella, Nazeera, Aaron, and Kenji having to jumping from a plane. Warner’s birthday party!!

I do like two new characters we got, Nouria and Sam. Give me all the strong women characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gun violence

ell_n's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-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

4.0

So good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Gun violence

safety_pin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Blood, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, War, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Classism, Homophobia, Outing, Cursing, and Transphobia

gothmiku's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Abandonment, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent and Panic attacks/disorders

chloelj27's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Torture, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence

jen1804's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.75

I loved it. I love the multi POV between Aaron, Juliette and Kenji, and all three of them had such interesting plots happening.
This is what all the previous books in the series have been building towards and BOOM, 5 stars!
In my opinion this book was a masterpiece. It’s exactly the kind of dystopian novel I was waiting for.
There are so many heart wrenching moments in this book, I mean utterly grim scenes involving torture, but which absolutely grip you. I cried at Emmaline oh goddd, help me.
There’s moments which made me audibly gasp in shock/horror/emotion. And several absolutely BAD ASS moments which I live for (I’m referring to the Evie/Ella, Aaron/Anderson respective parental murders)!
Part of me is bummed that Anderson can regenerate to some degree and keeps coming back once we think he’s dead. But also so far Juliette has had a chance to “kill” him and so has Aaron, and I’m wondering whether we’ll get another final kill scene but whether this time from Adam? I’d be here for that.
We get so many answers! And the history of Aaron and Ella is EVERYTHING. Stop it. When characters are continuously getting their memories wiped and yet continuously finding their way back to each other? Ugh god that does things to me🥹!
“Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”
We get reunion scenes, we love a reunion scene.
The bickering between Aaron and Kenji I adore so much. And their budding frenemies bromance. Love.
Aaron’s proposal in bed was legit the most perfect thing I’ve ever heard.
And that ending!? So wholesome! I loved that it was some normalcy in this life whilst acknowledging that the war is far from over and tomorrow would be hell. It was giving me a similar vibe as the Deathly Hallows Harry/Hermione tent dance scene and I loved it. Cannot wait to see what happens next.
Satisfactory ending? Yes.
“I will love you for the rest of my life. My heart is yours. Please don’t ever give it back to me”.

Edit: because I now literally have no memory of what happens in this book I cannot in good faith keep this at 5 stars so am demoting to 4.75.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Confinement, Death, Blood, Child abuse, Murder, Gun violence, and War