Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

18 reviews

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Drug use, Slavery, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

onefineelephant's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

 9/10. I loved this book. I wasn't aware that Monty and Percy would make an appearance in this one, but I'm glad they did. The exploration of asexuality/aromanticism was really awesome and well done (but I'm not asexual or aromantic so don't just take my word on it). I also really enjoyed the exploration and tensions of female friendship. And I loved how Felicity had to grapple with the notion of feminine + strong women instead of one or the other. Both Johanna and Sim were such fresh characters, I enjoyed them both a lot. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Violence, Animal death, Confinement, Drug use, Drug abuse, Animal cruelty, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Addiction, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Colonisation, Alcohol, and Death of parent

violet_pages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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: Sexism, Medical content, Misogyny, Blood, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Kidnapping, Addiction, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal death, and Colonisation

Minor: Slavery, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Chronic illness

hayleyvem's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gore, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Slavery

heather_lt's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring 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

Summery: On a quest to become a female doctor in a male dominant world, the main character finds herself thwarted at every turn. She ends up turning to drastic measures and on her way meets up with two other women with similar problems. 

What I enjoyed about this story: It was fun, entertaining, and laugh out loud funny at times. It was also inspiring with it's feminist themes. 

What I didn't enjoy about this story: I thought the sea dragons were a tad too much, but that element didn't detract from the story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

fraanini's review

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

4.25

Honestly I’m here at johanna knocking the ✨I’m not like other girls✨ out of felicity

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Animal death

hmatt's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-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

3.0

This one lost me midway though. The change in tone

, basically at the point where they leave Zurich on,

made it feel like 2 separate books to me. And, while I appreciate the ~strong female lead/ace rep/all of that, of course I do, most of it seemed very heavy-handed and clunk-ily stuffed into the narrative via long internal monologues from the main character. 

Perhaps this is another case of me not loving YA as a genre but continuing to read it because it is both more lighthearted and includes a wider variety of queer narratives than the other genres I like...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexism, Medical content, Blood, Acephobia/Arophobia, Misogyny, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Physical abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death

honeyfangs's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

• 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: Sexism, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Ableism, Kidnapping, Gore, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism