Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

19 reviews

teyn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Violence, Death of parent, and Genocide

Minor: Gore, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Grief, Murder, and Gun violence

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

saraakers's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death of parent and Genocide

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

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

book_becca's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Not an awful book, predictable at times. Writing style was not for me but can see the appeal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Vomit, Abandonment, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Misogyny, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Gore, Genocide, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Kidnapping

belle789's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

MY FAVORITE BOOK AND I HATE READING! I love the instant attention grasping and thoughtful story! Just read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Cursing, Violence, Blood, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Police brutality, Vomit, Genocide, Grief, Medical trauma, and Murder

tadpolefox's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Misogyny, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death of parent and Gun violence

Minor: Vomit, Sexual harassment, and Alcoholism

itsnicholaslashay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Grief, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Sexism, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Genocide, Child abuse, Cursing, and Death of parent

ilsota_77's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful 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? No

4.0

This ending 😭😭—- I have to get the second book ASAP

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Genocide

Moderate: Death and Gun violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Torture, Vomit, and Death of parent