Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

50 reviews

thenileriver's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.0

9.7/10
INSANELY CUTE ROMANCE
Romance 3.7/5 not much of it.
Plot 4.3/5 The twist with Ace in my eyes was underdeveloped.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Child death

totallybookedforlife's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Violence

dianaschmidty's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Gore, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, Death, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, War, and Toxic friendship

itsnotalakeitsanocean's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

I feel like this book (ironically) has a case of mistaken identity. It wants to be a YA superhero story, and it certainly deals with topics that would be seen in YA stories, but for the most part the writing felt more suited to a younger audience. I ended up skimming over several paragraphs after a while and 9/10 times when I continued on, I didn't feel like I missed out on anything important. Plus I get the impression that Meyer has a better understanding of hate crimes themselves rather than the marginalised communities they impact, and how those people live in society.

Also rather ironically for a book based on superheroes, I think the story would have benefitted from being produced as a graphic novel or written as a cartoon over being written as a novel. Her descriptive skills are solid enough that I could easily visualise what was going on.

Also what was up with that ending? What benefit is there to having the previously assumed dead Ace be actually alive if he's just going to show up randomly at the end without any prior warning? I assume this is going to be explained in the next book but this was so boring that a lazy cliffhanger isn't going to keep me wanting to know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, Hate crime, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gun violence and Medical content

psliz's review

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

loved everything. plot, romance, and especially a villain protagonist!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Bullying

Minor: Animal death, Ableism, and Animal cruelty

chloegshort's review

adventurous challenging inspiring mysterious reflective 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

I love Marissa Meyer's writing! This book took a little longer to pull me in than her other books, but I still really enjoyed it. I love

the slow burn between Nova and Adrian!

There were many twists in this book that I didn't see coming- especially the end! Overall it's a great book with many twists! I am very excited to keep reading this series to see how it ends!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Gun violence

skyarchive's review

adventurous emotional lighthearted 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Xenophobia

robin_reads's review against another edition

adventurous tense

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

3.5

This started out pretty interesting but reads very young. Some of the plot and some of the characteristics of the FMC and MMC feel forced at times. 
The last bit was what kept me interested in the second book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence

hannahmcclee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

I was hooked from the start with this book. I found the main characters to be people I could root for. The pacing was also good. I never felt like things were too drawn out or too rushed. THE ENDING caught me so off guard! I can’t wait to keep reading. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

koalachick's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Villains & heroes with more secret identities. There are high stakes and the characters are great! Learning where Adrian's quote is from was incredible and loved the ending.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Death