Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang

56 reviews

goldengirlbookclub's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

I’m deceased. This series broke my heart. Please read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

kaylamoran's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

I knew R.F. Kuang wasn't going to be nice.  But I really, really hated the ending.  And not only because a couple of the plot twists at the end were predictable.  I literally had anxiety reading the last couple of chapters because I could tell where they were going and I hated it.

This sounds like a negative review.  It's not.  For a book to get me to react this strongly to it, it has to have really meant something to me.  This series is incredible, easily one of the best I've read.  I just don't know if I can bear to reread it.

I'm just so mad that Rin hated Kitay at the end.  He was always my favourite, I loved them together, and SHE was wrong.  I really wish she didn't lose it at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, and Trafficking

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

4.0

Well, I finally worked up the nerve to read what I knew was going to be a devastating wrap-up to a really amazing series. I ended up giving this one 4 ⭐s, and it took me a few days to write my review because I couldn't really quantify why that was. It came down to the fact that we got to the last 20 or so pages and there was still so much more to wrap up! And then the ending happened and I was like !!!!!! That was a choice that was made! 🥶😭☹️🙄🙈😖 I really feel like this one could have used a little bit more time to fully flesh out the ending. But then the thing that happened probably wouldn't have needed to happen soooooo? My bookstagram friend Traveling Cloak's review does a really stellar job of drilling down into a critical lens of this book, if you're interested. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Toxic relationship, Racism, Grief, Gore, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Child death, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Mental illness, Medical content, and Gun violence

kindredbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

otherworlds's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is an absolutely beautiful, show-stopping, heart-wrenching ending to an amazing series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Blood, Gore, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Addiction, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Genocide, Drug abuse, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

Explicit, detailed depictions of violent Western colonialism. Moderately-detailed depictions of

missionaries coercing/forcing people to convert to fantasy!Christianity.

Moderately-detailed mentions of human experimentation.

aliciareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Sexual violence, Torture, Rape, Gun violence, Genocide, Cursing, Blood, and Addiction