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Lore by Alexandra Bracken

72 reviews

kayyyqgilbs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Torture, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Murder, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, and Suicide

ankelsocks's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Oof I really disliked this one. The writing is disjointed and clunky, the characterisation is random, the plot is uninteresting which is interesting giving how fast-paced the novel is. It just couldn't make me care at all. I like the premise, really, hunger games meets greek mythology should be my thang, but the Hunger Games aspect was needlessly brutal (so many incredibly gory deaths, almost all of them completely unable to serve the plot, BIG difference with HG) and the Greek mythology feels forced. I wanted to love this book and instead it annoyed the living daylights out of me. Doesn't help that the main character is a cardboard figure with a lot of rage (or sadness? Or confusion? God I don't know) and a really gruesomely murdered family (stop killing babies guys it's just ... No). I'm glad it's over. Meh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Torture

lanid's review against another edition

dark tense

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Torture, Murder, Sexism, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, and Panic attacks/disorders

captdummy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

Wow. Wow. Holy shit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Terminal illness, Blood, Torture, Child death, and Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual violence

kaelielily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

This book started out so strong, I was already thinking about wether this book would be a five or four star read for me. I loved the worldbuilding, all the different bloodlines and the old and new gods. I thought this version of New York, that combined both Mythology and modern life was a very interesting setting. I felt that the mystery and plot twists as well as the flashbacks, which resolved some of the open questions, were woven in skillfully. But sadly, for me, the ending fell very flat and brought Lore down to three stars.

This book could‘ve been even better if it answered some more of these open questions and didn‘t rush the ending. As much as I liked the fact that this was a standalone, maybe it should‘ve been longer or even a duology to exhaust its full potential.

The ending felt incredibly rushed. We had just spent so much time on world building, meeting all of these bloodlines and gods, building up to the real meaning of the poem, and then it just ends without wrapping up all of the threads.
Maybe I missed something, but I never realized what the poem really meant. Was it a way to end the Argon once and for all? The characters even said at one point, that it wouldn‘t be enough to kill Wrath because his followers would still go trough with everything. But at the end you don‘t really learn anything about what happened to the rest of his followers? The Argon still seems to exist?
Instead, now Castor and Lore are both gods and they simply pray to Zeus and he turns them back into mortals? Why would he do that, if he was the one to condemn the gods to this war in the first place?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, and Torture

Moderate: Violence

serotonone's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-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? Yes

2.25

This book is mediocre, at best. 
Would have DNF'd if it wasn't for my buddy read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexism, Terminal illness, Cancer, Gaslighting, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Vomit

honestreviews1010's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The plot was on fire. Kinda hard to follow tho. I quite liked it but it was quite… idk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Death of parent, and Child death

erin_curry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Torture

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Death of parent, and Grief

makaylastep's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-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

5.0

it definitely is slow at the beginning, but once i really got into the book i could not put it down! i 100% recommend this if you love greek mythology, but i would also recommend grabbing a tissue or two!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault