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Kosiarze by Neal Shusterman

70 reviews

alexijai98's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.75

I think I enjoyed the concept of this book more than its execution. The characters seemed a bit flat, and

the growing relationship between the two that you could see a mile away (simply because of the convenience of a girl and boy as the protagonists) had no time to fully develop</spoiler. The pacing was off and sort of clunky, but I did finish it quite quickly. I will be honest, i almost DNF’ed this book a few times, but I wanted to see what would happen so I kept reading. I think above all, that is a testament to this book. I will most likely read the rest of the trilogy out of curiosity if nothing else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

nadias_littlelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

cdoubet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

sopherdopher's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Physical abuse, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Religious bigotry and Alcohol

medini_l's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

laurajordensharris's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

rangerwing75's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense

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

5.0

I have so many thoughts on this book.

Everything was just so good! This really has me thinking of what it would be like if humanity did achieve immortality - if we took death into our own hands and had to judge who died instead of leaving it up to nature. It was so fascinating and had me stopping to think many times. 

The characters were also amazing. I loved seeing how Rowan and Citra progressed as scythes and people as their apprenticeships went on, and now they changed after

Faraday died and they were passed to new mentors

 

My favourite moments were

Goddard’s death

because he absolutely deserved it and

Citra becoming a scythe. Scythe Anastasia was an awesome name choice

because just yes.

I loved reading the scythe journal entries. It was fun seeing a little more into different scythe’s thoughts on matters and how even older scythes have changed and grown over the centuries. 

Just, overall, an amazing book and I can’t wait to read the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness

kstericker's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture and Religious bigotry

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexual harassment

janewsom8112's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

paulawind's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

It was a pleasant ride, I had a good time, enjoyed it immensely but I don’t think that it’ll leave a lasting impression. The whole concept is interesting, dwelling into what humanity would be if we’ve all became immortal. I wished for more active reflection on that and there is hope that it’ll get explored more in depth in next instalments because here we got a very solid groundwork. Especially when we talk about coprotagonists, where neither of them emerges as deutragonist (which hopefully won’t change in the next books) - the author diving depth and complexity to both equally which is especially striking how different they grew from starting on the same moral ground

I have to admit though that there were moments of pure plot euphoria (especially in the last chapter) when things just made perfect sense, fell together in such a satisfying way that I couldn’t help but squeak from reader’s joy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail