Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

58 reviews

dragonofbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, War, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape

caitlinemccann's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexism, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, and Addiction

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Classism, and Pregnancy

mgehrens's review against another edition

dark informative tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

maria1085's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative sad 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? Yes

5.0

Title: The Diamond Eye
Author: Kate Quinn 

Book club rating: 3.75-5 💎
My rating: 5 💎

We love a badass woman! Mila Pavlichenko was the real life Russian sniper during WWII. She was right at the front lines with the troops and helped take down many Hitlerites. She became known as Lady Death, and becomes a national heroine. Mila was a history student before the war broke out working on her dissertation. But when Germany invaded Russia everything changed. We all loved this woman, you really root for her because she’s a strong willed, intelligent, caring woman. The book is action packed, suspenseful, well researched, and haunting. Kate Quinn put so much research into this book and it made the reading experience come alive. It was also interesting to read about her trip to the United States during the war, and how different the relationship between the USA and Russia is now. Highly recommend this one! This will be in my top favorites of Kate Quinn’s books! I love my group of book club women! So good to get together with them and discuss a strong female main character! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and War

kailiyahknight's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Medical content, Vomit, Alcohol, Child abuse, Racism, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

icox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I usually dislike war and battle books but this was such a rich and riveting view of the life of a sniper and a woman in the Soviet army. It has war, hope, devastation, love, family, death, mystery, suspense, all sorts of stuff. I stayed up to 2:30am for two nights in a row to finish this as soon as possible! I couldn’t put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Sexism, War, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gun violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Suicide and Sexual assault

silverhill's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, War, Blood, Grief, and Gun violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Infidelity

kmroz's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Antisemitism

thebranchlibrary_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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: Medical content, Violence, War, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Rape