Reviews tagging 'War'

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

27 reviews

natalie_the_dancer's review

I wasn’t invested in the story and I didn’t like the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, War, and Violence

nancy163's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexism, Cursing, Death, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, War, Gore, Murder, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

weingut's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Genocide, War, Murder, Colonisation, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Misogyny

_rowantree_'s review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

I found the premise and themes of this book interesting and think it worked well as an audiobook. Some of the characters and their actions felt a bit unbelievable to me.

In particular, I wasn’t  convinced by the reasons given for why the bad guys cared so much about the main character and spent the whole book chasing him.

I found the dog really annoying until about a paragraph before it died. I think that was the point and was a sign of good writing, but not necessarily enjoyable.

I also find it irritating when books censor swearing but include violence, death, injury and prejudice. 

I may or may not listen to the next book at some point in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Religious bigotry, Sexism, War, and Death

hemmyreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Animal cruelty, Violence, Misogyny, Xenophobia, War, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent

jadarchive's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

amazing! i laughed and i cried, i love these characters so much

i literally sobbed when manchee died and bed left, im holding onto the hope of no body = no death for him and hildy

i’m excited for book 2 to see where the story goes 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Animal death, Murder, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Vomit and War

tallulahlucy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

3.5

The dog dies

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Death of parent, Animal death, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Child death, War, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Vomit, Murder, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Mental illness, Grief, and Gaslighting

fadingmoths's review

sad tense slow-paced

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

1.75

1.75⭐️ 

WOW, OKAY. how do I even start? This is more of a rant than an actual review but here we go?

In all honesty, this wasn’t the worst read of my life. If you want to read it, I won’t stop you. The concept was intriguing, but was executed poorly. After the first few chapters it felt super repetitive. I don’t leave a series unfinished, so I will be reading the next 2 books, but what do you even do from now on? 

Why do I hate this book? It’s slow-paced, the MC is horribly unlikeable (seriously Todd from the first page you gave me the ick), it had cheap grasps at getting the reader to feel something, finally topped off with simple uninteresting “plot twists” every other chapter (mainly a weird amount of revival of all the nasty characters)

Every single one of those deaths were so cheap AND SO SO POINTLESS! I originally was going to give this a 3.5 but those later chapters? Made me ball my eyes out and that rating slowly went lower and lower the more I read. 

Anyway, I hope Todd gets attacked by a crocodile next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death, War, and Death of parent

natgeographic's review

adventurous emotional funny tense 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? Yes

4.75

ughhhhh Todd cant catch a break!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Animal death and War

Minor: Cursing and Death of parent

arctoarcturus's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

I  really enjoyed the writing and overall themes -- a lot of great and thoughtful concepts, creative writing styles and extremely emotive. I would have given it four stars except for the utterly exhausting and traumatic plot. These kids can't catch a break, almost to the point of me wanting to put the book down completely. I often felt tense out of sheer frustration while reading because it seemed like the author was intentionally flipping the table before the reader had a chance to recover from the last upsetting episode. And while I get that this was probably a purposeful writing device, it made my experience of the book far less enjoyable, not because I was empathizing with the characters, but because I was feeling exasperation towards the author.

While I'd love to keep reading the series to dive deeper into the concepts and characters, I'm not sure I have the energy for all the trauma porn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Gun violence, Xenophobia, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Genocide, War, and Torture