Reviews tagging 'Violence'

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

100 reviews

anka_not_anchor's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-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

Leigh Bardugo simply can’t dissapoint me. This is almost as good as Six of Crows!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Gore, and Rape

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Animal death

irissel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

For a book that has so many ofy favorite characters from the Grishaverse (Nikolai, Zoya, Nina in particular), I really expected to like this book more. However, it was kind of middling for me. I really liked Zoya and Nikolai's dynamic and Nina's plotline was very interesting along with the new character who was brought in there, Hanna. However, I found Nikolai and Zoya's plotline frustrating and convoluted and I was completely uninvested in Isaak's storyline. I will probably still read the sequel, though.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Mental illness, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual violence

Forced pregnancy

spaghettii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Suicide, War, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Child death, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gun violence, Violence, Addiction, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Sexism, Death, Drug use, and Torture

jelliestars's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Grief, Violence, and Addiction

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, War, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexism, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Body shaming, Gun violence, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, and Vomit

siennakt30's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Trafficking, Sexism, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War

littletiramisu's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Grief, Violence, Misogyny, Hate crime, and Murder

paili's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse and Pregnancy

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Gore, Murder, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Confinement

evie_lumby's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Kind of slow going, I didn’t really manage to get into it like I wanted too but it was still a good plot.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Death