Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Morning Star by Pierce Brown

36 reviews

amemuuras's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Slavery, and Suicide

hellequin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Definitely the best book of the original trilogy. I personally failed to connect or care about any of the characters. I mainly read this to say I finished it. 

Pacing saved this book. If it was any harder to read I would have struggled to finish it. 

I read the large print edition because that’s all they had available at my local library and that had many editing and errors. Loads of words missing or repeated. Was quite annoying.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, Torture, Gore, War, and Body horror

linneak's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Kidnapping, Medical content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, War, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Toxic friendship, Classism, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Sexism, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Child death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

meridith_bex's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Gore, Confinement, Blood, Death, War, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Classism and Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide, Alcohol, Vomit, and Cursing

kaylak58's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Physical abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cursing, Violence, Child death, Suicide, Gore, Medical trauma, and Torture

jgruman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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: Suicide, Death, Torture, Slavery, Gore, Blood, Violence, War, Child death, Physical abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

reddeddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, War, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Genocide, Self harm, Body horror, and Cursing

Moderate: Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Torture, Alcohol, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Body shaming, Bullying, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, Excrement, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, Cannibalism, and Racial slurs

kiwij96's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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? Yes

4.75

This book was immediately well-paced. From the firat page I was pretty much sucked back into this universe. It was very heavy on the politics at times but it worked. Compared the Red Rising and Golden Son, there wasn't a page that wasn't relevant to the story. For sure a couple of paragraphs could have been edited out here and there, but generally speaking, the whole story flowed well chapter to chapter. This book hurt me with some of the character deaths, redemptions, and betrayals, but that makes for a great story.

Where this book loses marks is the battle scenes. Sometimes they are just too...wordy, or like they're trying to achieve too much. I cannot conceptualise half of the scenes in my head, which maybe is a me-problem, but sometimes I just can't picture it and it brings me out of the story a bit. (There was also that "Bye Felicia" moment and I actually took damage from cringing.)

HIS NAME IS PAX 🥹😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Torture, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Drug use, Medical content, and Suicide

alyse_turns_pages's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

5.0

Wow. What an epic ending to this trilogy (yes i know there’s 2 more books later). This story had me shocked and gasping so many times. I felt so drawn to all the characters…even the ones I was supposed to not like Sir Pierce had me thinking like Darrow about a few of them. The adrenaline I felt while reading this is unreal-I’m not sure if the tummy ache I got was the book or all the gummy bears I was stress eating while reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicide, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Classism, Violence, Blood, and Confinement

ejjay7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

Superb ending to one of my favorite series. Incredible risks and payoffs for the characters, who grapple with such real issues and practical difficulties without it getting bogged down. Whenever I had to set it down I needed it back up again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Violence, Suicide, War, Blood, Gore, and Torture