Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller

4 reviews

melaniereadsbooks's review against another edition

dark slow-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? Yes

4.25

I love Sal. This book was kind of too slow paced for me, but I really liked it other than that. I love how dark it is and I love the morally grey-ness (is that a word?) of the main character and many of the other characters. It is really interesting in this book how the focus is so much on shades of grey and how things in the world are not black and white the way they seem.

Great book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Sexism

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

A great conclusion!!

Rep: white sapphic genderfluid MC with anxiety and PTSD, BIPOC bisexual female love interest, aroace white female side character, white nonbinary side character, white trans man side character, BIPOC male side character, male side character with one arm, deceased female side character is mentioned to have been chronically ill. 

CWs: Blood, body horror, death, fire/fire injury, gore, injury/injury detail, mental illness (anxiety and PTSD), murder, panic attacks, self harm, torture (physical and psychological), violence. Moderate: child abuse and death, colonisation, confinement, genocide/mass murder, grief, kidnapping, medical trauma/forced medical experimentation, racism, transphobia/transmisia, war, xenophobia. Minor: sexual content, misogyny, sexism, acephobia/acemisia, biphobia/bimisia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Colonisation, Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Racism, Transphobia, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual content, Misogyny, Sexism, Biphobia, and Acephobia/Arophobia

gayghostprince's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Body horror, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Xenophobia, War, Kidnapping, Grief, Genocide, Colonisation, Child death, and Confinement

Minor: Transphobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Sexism

transphobia is just passive aggressive misgendering and the main character acknowledging that specific groups of people have a problem acknowledging that things exist outside the gender binary

halfwaytoaugust's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

public execution