Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

82 reviews

annaliseeee's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Grief, Death of parent, Blood, and Violence

biancahartley's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death

m_harbaugh's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Misogyny

winterwolf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, and Violence

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

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

savvypotions's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Animal death, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

thetomeraider's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

3.0

If you like books where the thing that moves the plot along is main characters being chased by a threat, finding safety, then running from the threat, finiding safety,running from threat...lather, rinse, repeat...you'll love this. Especially if you like that part of the threat is a bad guy who really should be dead but just is so consumed with his purpose that he just keeps on living. 

I went into it skeptical because I have come to hate gendered plagues in books that only wipe out women or men and there is no discussion of anyone outside the gender binary but that issue resolved itself for me. I didn't HATE this but it annoyed me more than it didn't.
Plus

The dog, who was kind of a hero and was holding the whole book up, is killed. It's terrible.

This is the 1st book in a trilogy and it does not give you a satisfactory wrap-up at the end so would not work as a standalone. I know I won't read the other books after this so I went to wikipedia and read the plot summaries and now I can move on with my life. But 1st I need to watch the movie adaptation which has Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley as the teenage main characters. So fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Animal cruelty, and Sexism

Moderate: Murder and Violence

Minor: War

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Gun violence, Animal death, Vomit, Sexism, Misogyny, and Gore

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Kidnapping

Minor: Colonisation, Cursing, War, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, and Death of parent