Reviews tagging 'War'

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

15 reviews

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Religious bigotry, Death, Kidnapping, Grief, Animal death, War, Violence, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Death of parent

crykea's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

Wonderful wonderful wonderful! Finishing this book made me go "well, what  the fuck."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, War, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Suicide, and Terminal illness

The minor content warnings are mentioned briefly in the

realm of death.

. Alcohol is drunk by characters throughout the book. Will's mother is mentioned in a few cases, hence the mental illness warnings. Animal cruelty happens throughout the book since the characters have daemons. The golden monkey especially likes to hurt animals. (Stalking)

will and lyra are stalked by father Gomez in the mulefa's world

Explicit content warnings: the book takes place during a religious war. There is a scene with a bomb (hence the fire warning). Confinement, kidnapping, death and grief warnings:

mrs coulier is kidnapped and confined by multiple people throughout the book, most often lord Asriel. Lyra begins the book in confinement after being kidnapped by Mrs Coulier as the end of the last book. The death of a parent tags refer to Lord Asriel and Mrs Coulier in the Metatron scene. The book has a through line theme of grief but it is especially poignant st the end in reference to will and lyra parting ways.

nicoleisalwaysreading's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-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

3.75

this is an EXTREMELY chaotic book. I have no idea how they will ever adapt this into 7 or 8 episodes. I am not entirely sure if it fully made sense or delivered the payoff of epic proportions I expected but I will say the very ending, centered on the few heartbeats of the story, rang true and felt appropriately peaceful yet also post-apocalyptic. Finishing this book right now, in this moment, amongst fresh war and brokenness and feeling a lot of hopelessness or detachment was cathartic and escapist at the same time. Choosing a fictional chaos over a real one for a few hundred pages maybe

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Grief

Moderate: Violence and Blood

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, and War

areadingstan's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Grief, and War