Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

54 reviews

janchamp's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Solid 4 stars! The audiobook is very well narrated and brings a lot of depth to the story. My only regret with the audiobook is that I felt I missed out on what the Diné words LOOKED like, which is probably weird, but whatever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism

stacis16's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Gore

pipn_t's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Really good, I enjoyed this one a lot  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

knunderb's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Really interesting read! It moved a little slow for my taste, but kept my interest well enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

alyssatuininga's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious 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

Really interesting book with extensive cool world building and concepts. It is a post apocalyptic book by a Native American author, where most survivors are  Native peoples. The writing was a little simplistic/YA but the concepts and ideas were really cool. Overall a really fun, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

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

courtofsmutandstuff's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Solid read! The world building is a slow reveal, which can be frustrating when you're a reader (like me) who loves an encyclopedia dump of lore and rules as a prologue, but everything is explained for the most part (though what exactly happened with Big Water is never spelled out, but once again that's me being a reader who wants every single detail). 
It is action based but also a mystery/investigation, with a smidge of romance. There are also twists and betrayals and surprises. I really enjoyed it and will definitely keep reading Roanhorse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Abandonment

aliteralhobbit's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Violence

mireillecum's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, and Gun violence

melodylavender'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

4.5

it's nice being given characters who seem fairly safe and trope-based, and then seeing the author actually know exactly what they're doing with them and being pleasantly surprised with more depth than you were bargaining for. Does that make sense? And then the worldbuilding is genuinely so best of class. the longer I sit on this book the more I feel pretty fondly about it. Pretty good! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse

12_21's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Gore