Reviews tagging 'Death'

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

68 reviews

noellegrace8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

What a great second book! We're given new characters that are just as vibrant as book one, and the plot really picks up. The beginning can be a little frustrating/disorienting as you get used to who is who, but it is quickly intriguing. It's obvious that the plot was clearly laid out from the inception of these books because of its intricacies. Some people may be frustrated with the lack of Kai in this one, and it is more gory than book one. Sometimes the new characters can be a bit toxic, but it also makes them interesting.

I do not factor audiobook narrators' performances into in my overall star rating of a book, but I would give Rebecca Soler a 4.5/5. She did better with this one than the last, with a bit more variance in her emotion, although it still drones or falls flat in parts. Her accents were quite good, actually allowing me to know who was talking when. However, I started to wonder why Scarlet has a French accent (typically, though sometimes Soler forgets to use it) but Kai, for instance, has an American one even though he lives in New Beijing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Classism, War, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Ableism, Colonisation, and Grief

Minor: Genocide, Mental illness, Vomit, Child death, Rape, Sexual content, Child abuse, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Medical content, Torture, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Confinement, Gaslighting, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, Misogyny, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

The items I included in "Graphic" are mostly due to violence throughout the book related to themes and characters. This second book contained much more of that than the first. Items in "moderate" are either thematic in occurrence or are detailed enough to warrant more than a brief warning. I did want to explicitly inform the potential reader about my sexual violence/rape warning: it is only threateded/mentioned once in nongraphic terms. It never actually happens/happened.

cassroberts89's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

I can’t decide if I love this more than Cinder or not. 

The point is that I love it 😍 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Murder

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

The second installment of The Lunar Chronicles was just as action packed and well written as the first in the series, if not more. I love how we were introduced to the new characters and seeing how their storylines intercept with the character storylines from the previous book as well as, how all of them meeting leads to this new thrilling storyline that’s going to happen in Kress (the next book.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Death, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Gun violence, Grief, and Torture

modernhobbitvibes's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

2.25

Nearly stopped reading when the twenty year old flirted with the sixteen year old, but my own inner sixteen year old wanted to know what happened to the wolf-hybrid soldier man, so I stuck it out. Not sure if I'll be finishing this series though. Insert Jupiter Ascending joke here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Death, Medical trauma, War, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Confinement, Medical content, Blood, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Gore, and Torture

Minor: Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

20 year old flirts with 16 year old, mind control,

coerced marriage.

meadow_sunrayz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad 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: Death

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Blood, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent and Vomit

caeliaucoin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Gore, Death, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, and Kidnapping

lulum14's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Murder and Death

amschelly153's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

I have really enjoyed this series and look forward to more twists and turns in the next book!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Abandonment, War, Death of parent, Violence, Grief, Gore, and Blood

thumbeleia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Blood, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Vomit, War, Abandonment, Ableism, Classism, Death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail