Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

82 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

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

annaforthebooks's review

challenging dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

What a stressful read! I loved the premise and how this book took the time to set up the entire series. I also didn’t mind the deliberate grammatical errors and the literal chaos on some of the pages. However, I found Todd to be really annoying most of the time (I won’t accept the reason that he’s just a kid) and felt actually tired of all the running they did throughout the novel.

Also, Manchee didn’t deserve any of it. What happened to him really made me angry. :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

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

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

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