Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Wool by Hugh Howey

4 reviews

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I haven't seen the tv show. I've only seen one short clip of a character saying

they wanted to go outside / they're lying to us

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Really enjoyed the writing style and the narration. 

Loved the feeling of tension created through

POV characters getting murdered, made you feel like anything could happen to any of the characters! Really made the 2 fake-out deaths super effective!

I also really enjoyed the inclusion of an unexpected theme

(romance)

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The only thing I didn't love was that part of the story didn't make sense to me when I thought more about it

like I don't get why the deepdowners were so keen on immediate revolution

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Murder, Torture, Violence, War, Confinement, and Classism

cat12345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Body horror, Cursing, Excrement, Infertility, Gore, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Police brutality, Child abuse, Incest, Stalking, and Bullying

jtemplin's review

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.5

I put the book down a few times in the first section and left it for a couple of weeks. 

Once I got into it though, between 50 and 100 pages, I got much invested and hard a hard time putting the book down. 

CAWPILE Rating
Characters - 8
Atmosphere/Setting - 9
Writing Style - 8
Plot - 8
Intrigue - 9
Logic/Relationships - 6
Enjoyment - 9
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Average - 8.14285714285714

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide and Police brutality

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

ches2496's review

dark hopeful 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? No

5.0

A tense, post-apocalyptic thriller. I starting the book after seeing the advertisement for Silo on Apple TV and it was totally worth the read. It got a bit slow in the middle, but picked up nicely at the end. I found the plot unpredictable, and to the last page I was never sure how things would turn out. The world building was intriguing and in-depth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, and Police brutality

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage