Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

124 reviews

eithne26's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

lady_valhella's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Genocide, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

sophiesmallhands's review

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Colonisation, Blood, Slavery, Gore, Religious bigotry, Racism, Violence, Death, War, Chronic illness, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Hate crime, Classism, Kidnapping, Animal death, Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Cursing

gigi_jodie's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

F meeee. This was so intense. I felt for Touraine throughout this book. She made so so many mistakes because of the internal battles of where her loyalties lay. Poor poor Touraine to figure out your idol had been your captor all this time. 

"Each path seemed like a different kind of powerlessness, but Touraine didn't know where else she could turn."

I honestly can't explain how well Clark wrote about colonialism and displacement, identity and politics in a divided land.

"Touraine was starting to think it was impossible to come from one land and learn to live in another and feel whole. That you would aways stand on shaky, hole-ridden ground, half of your identity dug out of you and tossed away."

It was so important to have both Touraine's and Luca's perspectives. Because as much as Luca is a power hungry monarch, she does genuinely care deep down, even though her actions might not always reflect that.

"'You will never have nothing. Not like we have nothing. Not like
the Sands have nothing. not like the Qazali have nothing- Not like a
carpenter's daughter in Nowhere, Balladaire, has nothing.' You will
never have to sell yourself to live."

"The sharp edge of Luca's voice rested against Touraine's throat. "I'm
letting you walk out of here on one condition. Get the rebels in line,
I don't want any more bloodshed than you do. The sooner they stop
fighting, the sooner I call of my hounds."
"You deserve this fight."
"The civilians, too? The children?"
"You teach the children to spit on us! Crawl out of your books, and
open your fucking eyes, Luca. This is real. We are real."

Sidenote, it was pretty damn cool to have a disabled princess, showing her reality and struggles without making it a weakness.

And that's all not even to mention all the other INCREDIBLE characters. The way they were discribed, the way they talked and moved I imagined them a certain way for it to only be later that their actual physical attributes were talked about and they were exactly as I imagined.
TIBEAU has my heart, he deserved so much better. 
Often stories spare not much room outside of the main characters, but even with only 2 POV's the other characters were so outspoken and alive on the pages.

Anyhow. Read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Grief, and War

katclaybaugh's review

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: War, Racism, Violence, Colonisation, and Genocide

Moderate: Ableism, Xenophobia, Slavery, Cannibalism, Death, Torture, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

heather667's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Chronic illness, Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Torture, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Excrement

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Murder, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Rape

mar's review against another edition

dark slow-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

2.5

this was so mediocre why did u guys lie to me :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Racism

Moderate: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Pandemic/Epidemic, Ableism, Sexual assault, and Torture

Minor: Vomit and Animal death

lanid's review

dark

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, War, Racism, Police brutality, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual harassment, Ableism, and Body horror

sofipitch's review

dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

The characters are interesting, the themes are good. Occasionally explainy or clunky but overall good. Tourraine's struggle to find her place after being displaced from her homeland, the way she is not fully a part of either, and how she keeps fucking up trying to work with either were well done and really hit. Also just fun fucked up romance subplot. Good mommy issues subplot. A lot of the character arcs and work blended really well with the overall plot. How Luca wanted to be "a good ruler" but for so long couldn't see how that conflicted with being a colonialist ruler. The big flaw of this is the default no gender or sexuality power dynamics, because it smooths out the race and colonialism ones, making things less complicated. But regardless still well done especially compared to other stuff I read *cough * Baru Cormorant *cough *What more can I say other than sign me up for the sequel, although I think this would work fine as a stand alone

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Colonisation, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Racism, Ableism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cultural appropriation and Chronic illness

backitupmoony's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Colonisation, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Torture, Sexual assault, and Ableism