Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

59 reviews

manarnia's review against another edition

adventurous fast-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

4.5

I thought this was a great conclusion! The characters were all at their best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Body horror, and Confinement

Minor: Rape and Torture

luluslittlelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent

limiwh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Grief, Gore, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Child death, Child abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

aimsro's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, and Gore

christy_0909's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.0

By far my favorite book of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy. I love the plot way more in this book than the others even if I still liked Nikolai and the Darkling more than Mal XD 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Blood and Grief

Minor: Torture

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gore, Death, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual content

eve_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-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? Yes

3.5

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ Out of all the books in the Shadow and Bone series, this is by far the strongest. I loved seeing Bardugo's writing develop and strengthen with each novel.

⁕ THE ENDING, oh my gosh the ending. It made all the meh moments of the first book worth it.

⁕ I super appreciated that Bardugo gave us more time to know and love the minor characters that weren't as present in the earlier books, especially Zoya. Her inclusion of them makes me even more excited to start the King of Scars sequel series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship

mndy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

I loved all the characters so much, especially Harshaw and Nikolai. Probably wouldn't reread the series, but it was still enjoyable to get through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Incest and Vomit

henrylee1202's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

3.75

For some reason, the book really frustrated me during but I was more sad that it was ending by the end to be angry at it.

The Darkling was a character I had too many mixed feelings for and his redemption at the end seemed kind of force.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

kaiulanilee's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

By far my favorite of the three. I think the pacing and character work was the most well done and I found her writing developed really well. I had often felt while reading the other two that she was teetering on the edge of making things dark but not doing so because they’re YA novels. I think Ruin & Rising had the perfect amount of darkness and graphic descriptions to it where it felt both hard hitting but also appropriate for its age group. All in all, a super solid fantasy novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Genocide, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape