Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Legend by Marie Lu

5 reviews

rebeccaisabelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

I love the story line and the plot twists. I wanted to read more and more so that I could find out what happened which resulting made me finish the whole book in 2 days. Whilst reading the first parts of the book, I thought, "this would make a good movie, I'd watch that movie" and then I changed my mind when I read further on because I realised that

John was killed and in a very gruesome way too. If I saw that in theaters I think I would feel pretty disturbed and sad about the loss

. The characters are so young. The kind of things that they are doing at that age seems unrealistic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, War, Chronic illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cultural appropriation, Death, Body horror, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Violence, Genocide, Gun violence, Grief, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, and Torture

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, and Abandonment

haley49's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

I loved everything about this book from the pacing to the characters to the plot. The only nitpicks I have are about gaps in world building and that emotional beats aren’t given the space to have lasting impact but I think that’s just the fast paced narrative. I can’t wait to read the next book(s).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Genocide, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Abandonment, Police brutality, Torture, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and War

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.5

Lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Blood, Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and War

booksanna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

Edit: chaning the rating from 4.25 to 4.75 because i remember the plot like 3 years later
It’s a good dystopian. It took me a while to get used to the mc’s though, but the development of their character is worth every page. This book has a good picture of a controlling government and corruption, rebelión and morals. Well-written with unique writing style. It is a little dark, but somehow inspires hope in you. The book tells rather than shows, but this detail adds to it’s charm. honestly all the questions are so clever and intriguing. Also my head canon is that the MCs are soulmates and you can’t convince me otherwise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Gun violence, Murder, Confinement, Car accident, Genocide, Grief, and Hate crime

nxclx's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed this book, and while I think that certain parts could have been more developed or elaborated on, it worked well. I would have liked a little more world building, and a little more relationship development, but that is my personal preference.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Car accident