Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Lost Stars by Claudia Gray

6 reviews

fictionfalcon's review

adventurous emotional

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, War, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, Alcohol, and Torture

letheaster's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

I did enjoy this book. The story was fun and as it went I got more and more invested to see how everything would pan out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Genocide

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content, Slavery, Grief, Alcohol, and Sexual content

bethany_b's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

The political commentary in this book is one of the best in Star Wars. Extremely lovable character. And has some of my favorite examples of idealism v. realism. Also wonderful and realistic grief from characters!  Takes what could have been a simple YA romance and turned it into this anti-fascism beauty. My favorite Star Wars book and one of my favorite books period. Great for any starter-Star Wars fans. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

calmcozycorner's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

Not Ciena explaining away the destruction of an entire planet while simultaneously screaming about her honor at every possible turn…

Also, Nash made my skin crawl. 

3 stars for the way the Empire’s machinations and methods of indoctrination were fleshed out. It almost read like a horror novel because, well, it kind of was. Other than that, I really didn’t like the main characters at all and spent most of the story feeling frustrated, especially with Ciena. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, War, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Genocide

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

ohgull's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

This book, omg. I loved it so much. It has everything I love about Star Wars, and there wasn’t even a single lightsaber!

I absolutely adored Thane and Ciena. Seeing them play off each other throughout the whole book was amazing. I sobbed and cheered on just about every page. 

The nuances of this book is amazing. Specifically the detail taken to include all of the details about the Empire. Throughout the movies and some other Star Wars novels, we are shown pretty black and white portraits of the Empire. The Rebels are good, Empire bad, but what I loved about this book is seeing how they were evil. How the kindest of people can commit war crimes. I loved the sneak peak into the Imperial Dogma, and seeing how they manipulated so many into their cause.

The ending of the book was incredible. I was confused most of the book because it was supposed to connect to the Force Awakens, but I never noticed anything. When I did finally notice how it connected, I was in awe! I will always see the Force Awakens differently now. That’s what I love about Star Wars, is the continuing richening of the story and movies. Every small detail can be expanded into an epic full of amazing stories.

TLDR: 5/5 Absolutely incredible, I will always have the final scene stuck in my head rent free.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Violence, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol, Medical content, and Slavery

grinchem's review

adventurous hopeful reflective 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

It's very YA and gets repetitive at times, but it picked up around the halfway point had some good angst. Overall a fun, relatively short read that is also accessible for readers who are new to the Star Wars universe. It did a really good job of showing the characters becoming indoctrinated and then gradually breaking away from the propaganda, in a way that was both compelling and understandable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, War, Suicide attempt, and Death

Minor: Racism and Domestic abuse

Nothing graphic, but it does deal heavily with war, and suicide is brought up several times