Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

41 reviews

brookesinfinitebooks's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Child death

Minor: Violence

ceruleanseas's review

adventurous emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Gore

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Abortion, Murder, Drug use, and Sexual content

caramiaculpa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

This series really stuck the landing. It really drives home that a good system cannot be built on rotten foundations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, and Torture

Moderate: Child death

purplatypus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Gore, and War

Minor: Body horror and Death of parent

oliverreeds's review

adventurous dark 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

absolutely crushed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, War, Confinement, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, Child death, and Gore

clhtdr's review

adventurous dark funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Classism, and Gore

recorderkfk's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

3.75

Immensely satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.  Would have loved to 15 more pages at the end, but Novak pulls it all together in a story that feels finished, but in someway like life and making change: is still somehow continuing. The book also scales up dramatically in terms of visiting other enclaves from the first two books. If you ever curious about where all the students lived and came from this is the book where you learn all of that.

Highly recommend the entire trilogy, one of the best series that I have read in the last two years!!

* some additional thoughts post reading (reviews right after you read the book are not always the best)
- some of the character choices novak makes don't feel consistent with the previous two books. El's graduation alliance for example is really pushed into the background in favor of other chatacters
- resolution feels a little "happy ever after" on q certain scale.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Vomit

missmali's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Death, and Gore

queenie_ofthe_void's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

3.0

Not sure how I feel about the ending and the pacing. It seemed like this could have been two books, and a lot of side characters fell by the wayside (Chloe, Magnus, Liu, etc). For a final book with a lot of ground to cover, I felt too much time was spent building a relationship between Liesel and El. Not the relationship itself, but that time could've been used to a better purpose. REALLY not happy with how things ended for Orion. His entire arc was learning how to be a 'person' and not 'a hero who kills monsters' but then ended up choosing to spend his life away from loved ones and killing monsters full time. Disappointing tbh.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Classism, Violence, Gore, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

mayabaxx's review

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Murder, Child death, Death, and Death of parent