Reviews tagging 'Violence'

To Kill a Shadow by Katherine Quinn

12 reviews

reading_kim_'s review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

organizedxchaos's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Gore and Blood

Minor: Child abuse

Brief mention of spiders

3am_bookmarks's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

loriengifford's review

medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Violence, and War

barbie_fett's review

dark fast-paced

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

If you like books with flat characters/absolutely no development, Mary/Gary Sues, and getting whiplash from characters dealing with (sometimes extremely) traumatic events and then making out/flirting/dry humping, and having stories being told at you instead of pulling you in and showing you what is happening, then this book is for you.

If you like books with amazing and unique world building, decisions that make sense, meaningful relation- and friendships, and having two different narrators with distinct voices, then this book is NOT for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, and Ableism

She’s not like the other girls, but there’s also

not any other girls that she interacts with who aren’t family,

which is pretty insufferable. It’s 2024, it shouldn’t be hard for an author to develop a strong female character without making a mockery of what being a strong female character actually is.

kaylyn_loves_fantasy's review

adventurous dark 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

4.25

I’m usually not a fan of the slow-start books and not gonna lie it took a bit of effort to get through the first 50 pages and whatnot but I’m really glad I did! The commander recruit relationship is great, and I thought that Jude had such great depth to him. I did think the side characters should have been included in the story more, characters like Alec and Nic were just kinda there for me. But I always love when the author makes up a whole religion (like Caraval) and she did a great job building the world and the story around this central religion. The end was a real twist and a setup for a great duology or trilogy. I fell like this series should only go on for one or two more books, if it goes on for too long I think it will become like Maximum Ride or even Shatter Me towards the end. I really thought this was a great book though, an easy read too it’s you’re looking for a kind of in-between-series book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Cursing

doahdancer's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Body horror, and Death

Minor: Sexual content

lisashelves's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Violence

sofieishere's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.0

I tried so hard to not dnf this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Animal death, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief

madistechoxo's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Minor: Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Violence