Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

98 reviews

audreymck's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Gun violence, Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Violence

taaniasill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, and Gun violence

rainbow_narwhal's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

The book was great. I read the translation by Nathan Collins and some things must have been lost in translation. The writing seemed clunky at times. Some of the chapters introducing new characters only for them to meet their demise on the next page became formulaic and super repetitive. I did skip/skim over these chapters. 
The main characters were interesting to some extent. Noriko was unfortunately written not well. She was a damsel in distress for the most part. Quiet, shy, and submissive with a lack of identity and hardly any background story when so much was dedicated to fleshing out other characters. I was so disappointed that at

the end of the book when she escapes and we are told second hand about how she strongly held and pulled Shuya up onto the ship through the strong waters and she kills a bunch of soldiers.

her moments of bad-assery are told to us second hand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gun violence, and Gore

cozyscones's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, Gore, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

vandistarrr's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Violence

livia_jewel's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Child death

gravityqueen's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

I knew I would like this since I really liked the movie years ago, but I'm so glad that I absolutely loved the book!

Did I remember all ~50 characters? No! But the reading pace kept me flying through it and the 20ish that were most important were definitely memorable. The size of the book flew by with the pacing of the short, intense chapters.

This new translation is more action-packed than the original (I compared line by line with the audiobook of the original English translation). You can tell this translator has worked on manga and video games before because the fight scenes are so much smother. But whichever version you have, read it.

What a thrilling, unexpectedly emotionally charged, bloody, anti-fascist roller coaster. This is the inspiration behind Hunger Games and battle royale style video games, but way more politically incendiary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child death, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Blood, and Gun violence

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexism, Medical content, Classism, Grief, Suicide, Rape, and Mental illness

Minor: Car accident

dakinpj's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Sexism

wiktoria_bojda's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: Child abuse