Reviews tagging 'Death'

Lexicon by Max Barry

7 reviews

sf_book_cat's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is in my top five books of all time. It’s exciting, intense, and the world hinges upon the power of words themselves! What more could a bookworm ask for?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Death, Blood, and Gore

sgrunwald96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

Very interesting read. I thought it was a unique look at words as magic. Dangerous powerful things. Well written and spooky at times, this book was well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Car accident

daniber's review

adventurous informative mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Medical content, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Body horror, and Car accident

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

annagoodman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

An inventive premise, flawlessly executed.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Sexual assault

angelareads's review

There was a little bit too much sexual content in relation to a relatively young girl for the sake of being "real" or "gritty" for me. Also I started the book yesterday and today I forgot that I was reading it until I saw it sitting on my table. Off putting + forgettable =DNF

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Violence, Death, Misogyny, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Kidnapping, Gore, Medical content, and Sexual content

FMC is sexually assaulted by having her mind hacked into and being forced to a sexual act she didn't consent to.

teresareads's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Death, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Car accident, and Suicide

ehmannky's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Considering I do not tend to enjoy thrillers, I was surprised how much I truly enjoyed this book. It's so well-paced. And as a former English major, I loved the look into semiotics and trying to define what are words and their power. The whole analysis of language (verbal and nonverbal but can't go more into it because of spoilers) and also the dystopian impacts of persuasion via the internet (no longer even needing to really persuade because an algorithm does it for you) was just sooo good. And also I was quite a fan of the love story in this. An all-around very fun and entertaining read, highly recommend.

Also, could someone please make this a movie with Chris Hemsworth. I would very much like to watch that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Confinement