Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

9 reviews

mossgoblins's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, Confinement, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: Stalking, Child death, and Grief

breamfish1138's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Harry Potter but with Gothic horror, anarchic dark humour, delightfully non-age-appropriate violence and emos. Also there's skeletons and vampires and scythe guys and a dash of cosmic nightmare and fireballs and bullets and scary hands and vampires and bullets. Derek, you done good. 10/10 would recommend  to everyone 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Blood, Torture, Stalking, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Body horror and Cursing

OK so all the Skulduggery Pleasant books are more violent and dark than your average kids/YA fare and this one is no different. Kids 11-14 will probably just find the violence fun tbh.

fionamatilda's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Child death and Torture

Minor: War

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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

3.5

Fun, full of adventure and action. Found the characters a bit unbelievable (yes even though they’re all magical), more their personalities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Gun violence, and Murder

faye_jonesy's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

4.25

Not going to lie I read these books as a teen, and have decided to come back to them as a way to break up my current more "acceptably adult" reads. It is such a comfortable, exciting and nostalgic world to jump back into. It might mean my review is a little bias, but if you want cool characters, interesting plot and a well built world I would 100% recommend. It's magical realism with a modern twist. Sarcastic humour only found in Ireland and Northern cities like Liverpool.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence

grrrlbrarian's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: War and Murder

emlo's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-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

I really enjoyed the banter between the main characters, it took the edge off what was quite a dark plot. The characters are all interesting and unique. There are some tongue in cheek nods to other books in the genre. There is a lot of violence in this book especially towards the end so even though it's middle grade may be a bit much for the kids at the younger end of this age bracket. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident and Torture

our_bookish_reads's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Murder

kkamarin's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Child death