Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

89 reviews

celery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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: Genocide, Grief, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, War, Classism, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Violence

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 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

4.5

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

akswhy's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious 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

2.25

I like the world of this book, but the story is… odd. It’s so obviously meant to be the first book in a series that it accomplished almost nothing except a light rivals-to-arguably-too-intense-and-largely-emotionally-immature-lovers. I’m going to wait for reviews to read the upcoming second book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Death, Blood, and Gore

abby_can_read's review against another edition

Review pending St. Martin's Press boycott. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Gore, and Grief

annick's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

2.25

Meh. I got bored a few two many times. I wanted to pursue the story of lieutenant lark and the sycamore platoon. 

This felt a mix of ww1 and Violet Evergarden. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Sexual content

gphemsley's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Suicide, Vomit, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

nicjmorrow's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.5

Magic letters and typewriters, a war with gods involved, chosen family, and really fun world building

Rivals to lovers plotline

there's tons to love in this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Suicide

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

spaghettii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

Any words I can find to describe this book would be an understatement. To put it simply, this was a beautiful and emotional book that reminded me why I love historical fantasy.

I found the plot endearing. It could be considered predictable, but I think the best written stories are where you know inevitably what will happen, but watch it play out anyways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Murder, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Classism, Cursing, Gun violence, Medical content, Death, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death of parent, War, Vomit, and Violence