Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

5 reviews

lakinglaze's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I wanted to really like this book and it had a lot of potential, but I didn’t love it. There are just too many problems, the plot development is lacking, and everything just felt flat and under developed. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Violence, Torture, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Confinement

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Homophobia, Sexism, Transphobia, Slavery, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Torture

Moderate: Death, War, and Violence

Minor: Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, and Death of parent

rumireads's review against another edition

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Torture, Child death, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Bullying

carmineslamp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

AHHHHHHHHH. I feel like this is such good middle grade fantasy. I'm in college and I still find myself riveted by it. I loved some of the twists and squinted at others, but eh, what do you expect.

WHY WERE TEDROS AND FILIP SO GAY FOR EACH OTHER??? THOSE ARE TWO HOMOSEXUALS. BRUH. BRUH. AND TRISTAN??? BRO, SHIT R U I N E D ME

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Death and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Torture

Sexism in reference to the girls calling the boys born slaves and the boys just fucking hating women, I guess.

also i'm calling what sophie and rafal have going on an adult minor relationship because i know some people are uncomfortable with that. it's just immortal man getting with 16 year old girl, so take your opinions into account

xandra_lyn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

So even though I enjoyed this more than the first book, I'm rating it lower. 

Pros: pacing and end were much better than the first book

Cons: the animosity between the genders is horrible. I know toxic masculinity wasn't a word back then, but this shows the awfulness of it without having the characters realize how awful it is.  I also hate how these characters go through horrific things and have ZERO PTSD. The cruelty is awful and sad, and I don't think anyone actually treats people that way - and if they do, then toxic masculinity has been destroying people for so long, we no longer care that it's put into a children's book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture and Death

Torture: tedros is beaten, and although it doesnt go into the details, it goes into his state of mind before and after and it's heartbreaking