Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Morning Star by Pierce Brown

65 reviews

reddeddy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Hate crime, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, and Pregnancy

kiwij96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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

4.75

This book was immediately well-paced. From the firat page I was pretty much sucked back into this universe. It was very heavy on the politics at times but it worked. Compared the Red Rising and Golden Son, there wasn't a page that wasn't relevant to the story. For sure a couple of paragraphs could have been edited out here and there, but generally speaking, the whole story flowed well chapter to chapter. This book hurt me with some of the character deaths, redemptions, and betrayals, but that makes for a great story.

Where this book loses marks is the battle scenes. Sometimes they are just too...wordy, or like they're trying to achieve too much. I cannot conceptualise half of the scenes in my head, which maybe is a me-problem, but sometimes I just can't picture it and it brings me out of the story a bit. (There was also that "Bye Felicia" moment and I actually took damage from cringing.)

HIS NAME IS PAX 🥹😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, and Cannibalism

alyse_turns_pages's review

challenging dark sad 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

Wow. What an epic ending to this trilogy (yes i know there’s 2 more books later). This story had me shocked and gasping so many times. I felt so drawn to all the characters…even the ones I was supposed to not like Sir Pierce had me thinking like Darrow about a few of them. The adrenaline I felt while reading this is unreal-I’m not sure if the tummy ache I got was the book or all the gummy bears I was stress eating while reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ejjay7's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

Superb ending to one of my favorite series. Incredible risks and payoffs for the characters, who grapple with such real issues and practical difficulties without it getting bogged down. Whenever I had to set it down I needed it back up again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Medical content, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Genocide, Hate crime, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

The author is so cruel to his characters 😭 A great and realistic wrap up to a fantastic series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Miscarriage and Torture

murrayscottferguson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

cc0906's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Alcohol

katiefronk's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War