Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

65 reviews

sofieishere's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Grief, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Child death and Sexual content

blacksphinx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcoholism, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Classism, Medical content, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Vomit and Excrement

CW: Drowning

brandywyne's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Child death, Death of parent, Genocide, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Alcohol

nicksalex's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, War, Gun violence, and Death of parent

rylin_marie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

maybe my fav book of 2023???this might be my fav read of the year! the academic rivals to lovers trope is so perfect in this book! my heart was torn to pieces, but i was left NEEDING more !! so here i am, restlessly and anxiously waiting for ruthless vows to release. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcoholism, Gore, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Grief, Death of parent, Vomit, Alcohol, and Gun violence

nerdyforbooks_'s review

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

4.5

This book is solid, yes in a good way. While it didn’t totally knock it out of the park for me - this book has its issues - it’s a solid YA without feeling childish.

Does it lack some world building? Yes, but I have a feeling a lot of that is to come in the next book. There’s a lot we don’t know about why this war started. Is it a spurned lovers thing or something else? This world also generally isn’t that complex right now. It’s a world set in the equivalent of Earth’s 1940s (which some tweaks). Their tech isn’t fancy, their world isn’t fancy, and the magic isn’t their doing. 

The romance is very YA in nature where they kinda do a quick enemies to lovers deal, or others have said - you’ve got mail. Does that make it bad? IMO no, we know the characters have about 5-6 months history with each other already. There is already some attraction there as well. It wasn’t this totally unexplained whirlwind. 

All-in-all, I thought it was a solid read. Does it fall into some YA “issues”? Sure, but overall I thought they were navigated decently to not make me constantly eye roll or want to step away. I’ll be excited for the sequel to see what happens to our MC’s. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Gore

kaseythefairy's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Body horror, Death of parent, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Minor: Abandonment and Classism

sammymilfort's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Genocide, Violence, Vomit, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death of parent, Death, War, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Torture

itsfranzib's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad 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

I don’t know even have words. These last hundred pages have put me on the edge of my nerves. I don’t know if I can sleep tonight (in a good kinda way…i think).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gun violence, War, Blood, Death, and Death of parent

normanrockwell7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Abandonment, Gun violence, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism and Injury/Injury detail