Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

4 reviews

keyia_b's review

adventurous challenging emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Gore

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

madsmcw_reads's review

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

After absolutely loving Red Queen, I was really exciting to see what happened next in the story. This book took me an embarrassingly long time to read but I finally finished it!

I didn't like this one as much of the first. It was quite a bit more slow placed than the first and we spent a loooooot of time just reading about Mare trying to wade through her thoughts. And the big action scenes felt very tactically placed and not always organic to the story. 

There were parts of this that felt very typical YA dystopian/fantasy story plot points. And honestly this gave me big Breaking Dawn vibes with how they were going all over the place to hunt out people to help their cause.

While there were things I didn't like, I was still so capivated by the story. I love Cal and Mare, and I NEED to see more of them. The cliffhanger in this one was absolutely insane and I need to start the next one asap. I loved learning more about this world and trying to fit all of the pieces together, old and new.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Torture, and Violence