Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

31 reviews

draven_deathcrush's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative tense 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

5.0

I rated this book higher than Divergent because even though it was slower and had less action, I loved all the science elements and how it talks more about Erudite instead of mostly taking place in the Dauntless compound.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

kirsto's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I forgot how annoying both Tris and Tobias are. Guess they’re really meant for each other! Also, this book in seriously messed up—and not even an interesting, morally ambiguous way, like in a pretty much everyone has murdered or been complicit in the murders of innocent people way. Why were we all reading this in middle school!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, Torture, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, War, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Vomit

romiress's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

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

1.0

The worldbuilding is awful and inconsistent, the 'villains' motivation is bizarre, things make less sense once you know the big reveal, very little happens beyond the constant thinning of the main cast, it's just trauma after trauma after trauma with basically no wins ever. None of it landed, none of it made any sense, I'm baffled I enjoyed it so much. There are just so many characters who you're told you should care about seconds before they're killed off. I can't even keep them straight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Child abuse

meganrlaurence's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse

elderflower's review against another edition

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

3.0

Disappointing sequel to an amazing book :( 
I feel like 60% of this book is just violence so… yeah not for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Torture, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, and Death of parent

More content warnings: terrorism, PTSD, nightmares

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Body shaming and Suicide

mckalln13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child abuse

paperback_moon's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Violence, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Mental illness

Minor: Drug abuse

tehrissa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Blood, Bullying, Grief, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, and Confinement

Minor: Body shaming