Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

60 reviews

jassieex's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: War, Torture, Murder, and Grief

Minor: Vomit

adeena23's review

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

psliz's review

adventurous 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

3.5

lot of planning, not that much action. but definitely lots of romantic angst.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Torture, War, Violence, and Blood

micaelamariem's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

I absolutely loved finally diving back into this world and seeing how Mare’s journey progresses. I’m always a sucker for YA fantasy and dystopians, so I probably will always rate them highly, but I didn’t want to stop reading this. Lately, though I’ve always loved a redemption arc, I’ve been loving the exploration of when it’s okay to do some morally gray things and when do we turn into monsters if that’s who we’re trying to defeat? Mare’s grip on her own morality and her learning to love and trust again are the biggest themes of this book. I loved meeting new characters and getting more depth in the old ones. I didn’t like Cal in the first book, but now I’m in love! And I don’t hate Kilorn anymore. And I have a deeper understanding of Farley. Though there may be animosity between characters, I’m sensing some found family vibes coming and I am so here for it. Though the ending was such a disheartening cliffhanger, that I’m almost scared to start the next book! (Good thing I don’t have it yet I guess eh?) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Violence, Child death, Torture, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Pregnancy, and Slavery

kingspite618's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, Blood, Child death, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Murder

amanda_reads13's review

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Grief, and Confinement

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

birdie770's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, 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