Reviews tagging 'Violence'

El rastro del rayo by Rebecca Roanhorse

55 reviews

redthistle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Body horror, Torture, Police brutality, Violence, Child death, Blood, Gore, Grief, Abandonment, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism and Colonisation

alyssamakesart's review against another edition

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, Vomit, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing and Racism

Minor: Ableism

raptorq's review against another edition

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, Blood, Child death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gun violence

thndrkat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

5.0

Violent and fascinating, with a compelling first-person point of view.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, and Gun violence

jav094's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

A good, original story from a fresh perspective. But too often, I struggled to understand why Maggie believed or did what she did. It becomes increasingly hard to ignore as her actions impact the plot more towards the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gore, Cannibalism, Gun violence, and Violence

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

coffeeandcomedy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, and Death

Moderate: Cursing

Tagged cultural appropriation as a major content warning because there is some controversy around Roanhore using Diné culture/stories/beliefs as she is not Diné.

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

I think what I read of the book was fine.  It's a post-apocalyptic earth with gods and monsters aplenty but I didn't like the main characters.  It's right at the point where I stopped (almost halfway through the book) when you finally start getting some explanations about what is going on/how things work and it wasn't interesting to me.

I don't want to force myself to finish another book I am not enjoying and my tentative rating before quitting the book was somewhere in the 2 star region.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Gore, Sexual harassment, Torture, Gun violence, Sexism, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Child death, and Toxic friendship

samanyana's review against another edition

apparently still not in the mood for urban fantasy. annoying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Murder

lottiegasp's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

This novels depicts a near future where the entire world is wiped out by a devastating flood, sparing only the Navajo nation and waking Navajo immortals and witches and humans' clan powers. The main character is a monsterslayer who was in an abusive relationship with the immortal who took her in and trained her and who thinks she is a monster undeserving of love or friends. The story is adventurous with an exciting love interest. It allows us to consider a dystopian world where Indigenous people are the only ones who survive- yes, it is a difficult world for them too, but they have already survived the apocalypse of colonisation after all, which they don't need to face in this new world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship