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danat28's review
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Blood and Death
tbs250's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Violence
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Car accident, Self harm, and Suicide attempt
allym's review
- 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
Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Death, and Gore
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Gun violence
Minor: Drug use
mj_hyperfixation_station's review
- 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
Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Child death
louannereads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gun violence, and Death
rachellkoo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.0
The first book was the best in my opinion.
But here I felt like the characters emotions were plain, especially Thomas’ emotions.
And the ending was supposed to be satisfactory but I just felt like it was a bit cliche and still many questions got unanswered.
But I have to say Dashner’s world building is really great (his writing is nothing special though).
Anyways I’m glad I’m finally done with this series, I think younger readers would enjoy this a bit more than I did. It’s definitely not the kind of book I’d pick up now that I know my taste in books, but I started this series a year ago when I really didn’t know what I was doing in terms of books lol
Moderate: Death
ishouldbereading's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Grief, Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence
Minor: Cursing, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Drug use, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
wiktoria88's review
- 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? Yes
3.25
Moderate: Gore, Violence, and Death
lularob's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Death
nytephoenyx's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
It's been a long time since I've read anything of Dashner's, so the writing style came at me like I was reading it for the first time. I want to call it a lot of "telling, not showing", but there's something to his verb choice that aggravates me. There's an awful lot of "Thomas now saw..." and "Thomas understood that..." and "It was obvious to Thomas." The deeper I got into the audiobook, the more grating these descriptions were. Thomas was at all times both omniscient and clueless. Always making the exact right choices to get in the exact wrong situations from which he'd make the exact right choice to get out of... and then end up in another wrong situation, from which he'd make (you guessed it!) the exact right choice to escape. And on it goes. It was repetitive and monotonous.
Usually when I continue a series I'm not particularly in love with, I'm in it for a character. And almost always, *somehow*, I pick the character that the author chooses to kill off or otherwise destroy in the next book. I don't know how I do it - it's a knack, I guess. But that happened again here where we were and will forever be stuck with THOMAS. Boring, shallow, unexciting Thomas. If you're going to have a Chosen One (which now he indisputably is) at least make him interesting. The concept of this series remains really interesting, but its execution is subpar.
I'm definitely done with this series. THE DEATH CURE was a long walk to nothing. There was little to no character development, little to no plot progress, and the writing was grating. There are so many better books to read by authors who do not sexually harass women and then gaslight them.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, War, and Violence