Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

10 reviews

eszablya's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Death of parent, Child death, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Death, and Genocide

gwynnfox's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The complex relationships of war-time is very well written. The magic of the world is easy to understand and unique. They seem to keep forgetting that the main character, who holds thousands of lives in her hands is 16 years old, but the worst part is the supposed romance. There is 0 chemistry between Mare and Cal. Their feelings for each other is unbelievable. The most chemistry Mare ever had with anyone is Maven, and he's a douche and a half. Even Shade and Farley have no chemistry. The pairings don't seem to match up well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Self harm, Slavery, Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Racism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Classism, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Confinement, Grief, and War

psnchz's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, and War

stitchof's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Hate crime, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, War, Gaslighting, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Death, Genocide, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

sarahdoggen's review

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Mare is a real “oh god I’m so dark, I'm so fucked up, you should see my heart, it’s black” - kind of pick me girl and I hated it, but I do want to know how the story progresses, so i’ll probably read the next book (also because I’m a sucker for Maven and I wanna know how he turns out).
Ending was well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Violence, and War

thecatconstellation's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I definitely did not enjoy this as much as Red Queen.

I enjoyed learning about the new bloods and their powers. And I really enjoyed seeing Mare with her family again. But I honestly don’t think I can forgive Aveyard for killing Shade. We had already mourned his “death”, and then we got to know him even better and you kill him for real?! I feel like this was used to do something to Mare’s character but it fell short.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Torture, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Confinement, and Gore

Minor: Abandonment and Child death

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

2.0

Antisemitic - had a part v reminiscent of the tattoos that Jews were forced to have and that character had just escaped from a prison where the “reds” and “silvers” are segregated.  

Also used an ableist slur.  I will not expand further. 

Disgusting to see and a shame as I enjoyed the general story just for it to be ruined by such acts by the author 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, War, Antisemitism, Child death, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Ableism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

bentobookdragon11's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense slow-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Violence, War, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Grief and Pregnancy

*kissing*

emmaopaline's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, and War

remistired's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This book was only slightly better than the last. But not a significant improvement. It took me too long to finish. The disappointment from the first book completely ruined any hope I could have for this series. But there’s three more books to go so let’s see.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Murder, and Violence