Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

59 reviews

sk_popo's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense slow-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? No

5.0

This book was superb everything I needed from a book. It has a little bit of slow burn romance, a little bit of humor, and a whole lot of mystery and adventure. This book finally delved into Blue, I had been waiting to see how this character could be just as deep and complex as the other characters. We finally get to see her as a main character with complex emotions instead of this practical sidekick. The author invested so much time to bring Blue into the forefront to develop this character when you think about it. Blue’s abilities have forced her to be a sidekick a supporting role. Which is what we had really seen for the last 2 books, we saw a sassy teen with a tendency to be underwhelmed by everything. Then we get to the third book where we now still see this sassy teen, but due to unexpected events that force her to be the hero the we get to see how scared and vulnerable she is, *chef’s kisses*. Plus in this book we finally get to see how Ronan feels about Blue which was exactly what I needed because I was unsure if Ronan saw Blue as another annoyance or as a friend. But Blue isn’t the only character that was due for character development, we finally start to see Adam mature and grow, thank god. His pity party and self sabotaging behavior disguised as pride was getting on my nerves.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Blood, and Violence

ladythana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Murder, and Death

Minor: Violence and Gun violence

valenhv8's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Abandonment

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Death, Murder, Stalking, and Death of parent

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I started this book with all the intention of giving it 4 stars because I was hoping to really like it, but I’m starting to think this isn’t so much for me. Not that 3 ⭐ is bad, but it wasn’t what I expected. This book or series is not bad at all, is just that I’m not connecting with it the way that I expected.

To be honest I’m getting a bit bored but I’m still going to read the last book. I don’t understand how people waited 1 year for each book, I mean if I had to wait that long after these endings I think I would DNF because is not like it’s a great ending or interesting (to me)

This book is: is not just Glendowell but there’s 3 sleepers and the whole story revolves around that, and like… that’s it.

This guy with complicated last name who was the ex boss of the Gray? I thought he would be an all powerful evil guy but he’s just so weak, all bark and no bite. His wife Piper has more balls than him lo and was more interesting (especially in the end)

The biggest disappointment for me was thinking I would finally love the characters… but 😭 is not that I hate them, I just dislike them (Blue and Ronan) or I don’t care (Gansey and Adam), we won’t even talk about Noah because he’s the one with the most potential to be interesting (in my opinion) but he barely appears.

Besides this is kind of forgettable (and I do have a very good memory) because I would not read this for 3 days and I could not remember what even happened, there was one point where I could not even remember Ronan’s name, it was weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Blood and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Domestic abuse

Here is the specifics of the content warnings I selected, and it’s very vague so there’s no spoilers:

Panic Attack: At the very beginning, when they're exploring the cave and something happens to one of them he says "I think I'm having a panic attack"

Domestic abuse / Child abuse: Adam father coming to his apartment and him thinking about the old abuse, and mention of the trial.

Gun Violence / Violence / Blood / Death: Someone killing someone and a fight by the end.

Death of parent: Two of the kids seeing a vision of their parents dead.

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

unicorn3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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? No

4.75

Until now it's by far my favourite book in this series! I loved it from the start until the end. It's really interesting and the characters had a great development which I love to read about in the last book too!

Also Piper and Colin! I really liked them as side characters here too

I'm curious what will happen with the three sleepers who are they? Will they wake Glendower and get their wish? Will Gansey die? 
So many open questions for the last book to close...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny

guessgreenleaf's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Classism, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Blood, Sexual harassment, and Death

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

4.0

It felt a bit slow around the middle but the end was... what a cliffhanger!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Death

Minor: Confinement

booksandstardust's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Mental illness, Ableism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Sexual harassment

keya_caivalur's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Kidnapping, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Car accident, Classism, and Domestic abuse