Reviews tagging 'Torture'

All of Our Demise by C.L. Herman, Amanda Foody

32 reviews

bookeduntil's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, Blood, Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Bullying

aseel_reads's review

dark 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

4.0

I really liked how they ended the tournament and just all the little character dynamics 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Murder, Bullying, and Blood

bnntt's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

Slow burn, enemies to lovers, fight to the death, shady adults

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cursing, Medical content, Torture, Murder, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Grief, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

I mainly just want to know what he changed his name to.

snootle's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I finished this duology because I was curious how it would end, but overall I struggled to enjoy this book and the first one.

I liked the trials and challenges they faced recreating the relics,

but the constant changing of each character's feelings and objectives made it difficult to connect with them. Moments that should've been tense and time-sensitive were filled with drawn out, emotional dialogue which made it seem like they were rarely in actual danger.

My biggest problem with this duology is how it relies on telling rather than showing. It tells you that every character is a villain/monster/bad person, but overall there is little to show this outside of a handful of events. We have to rely on reading their every thought. Everything is spelled out, even to the point where obvious, simple story beats are explained at length, leaving no opportunity for thought or speculation from the reader. 

I enjoyed the world building, setup/involvement of the champions' families and some of the magic, but unfortunately this series fell really flat for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Vomit, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol

vadip's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping and Torture

Minor: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Child abuse

guessgreenleaf's review

dark hopeful tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, Violence, Death, Torture, and Self harm

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Grief

quinn24's review

adventurous emotional funny 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? It's complicated

3.5

This was fun, definitely not my usual kind of read, I did feel like a few things fell kinda flat, but it was fun. I liked Alistair, Hendry,and Gavin, but I found myself being kinda bored with the others though I am almost always like that when a book has switching POVs. Alistair is absolutely my favourite. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Torture, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Death, Child abuse, Grief, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Vomit, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child death

Minor: Alcohol, Misogyny, and Sexism

brooketreads's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.5

I loved book one, so why isn’t this a five star too? My main issue is that I felt like this was too long. I spent the last two or three HOURS of the book thinking ok time to wrap this up.

This next part ranges in to spoiler territory. Ye be warned!

My other main issue is that book one got me invested in Alistair and Isobel as romantic interests. I ended book one having hope that they would come back from it. Then, here in book two they are like nope, let’s give them both other romantic interests. I don’t do well when authors decide to do this in their series (SJM in ACOTAR I’m looking at you 😤). Anyway!!! At some point I did start to come around. But then Alistair and Gavin ticked me the heck off torturing Reid. 😡 because I liked Reid. I felt like everything got cleaned up too nicely at the end too. And Briony?! It fit though still folking rudeeeeee. But, I felt it should have also been Alistair. Sorry not sorry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

stranger_reader's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

jessy4550's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Murder, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Torture, and Sexual content

Minor: Self harm, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Confinement, Stalking, Bullying, and Kidnapping