Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

58 reviews

a_tiny_crow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, and War

Minor: Vomit and Stalking

kaetheluise_nckl's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Animal death, Murder, Physical abuse, War, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Religious bigotry, Abandonment, and Suicide attempt

classicism, victim blaming, discrimination, persecution for witchcraft, PTSD, self-sacrifice, sickness, scars, explosion, knife violence, physical assault and poisoning captivity, blackmail, hostage situation, exile and banishment

fierymoon's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The book overall was awesome. The character development of some characters was truly lovely to read and the end is a literal emotional rollercoaster so prepare yourselves a good amount of tissues!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

therobinjoyce's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I’m dead. How do I even start any other book after this one? This series has been incredible so far with the love triangles, the fantasy landscape, and the cast of wonderful characters, but this last book has truly ended the series with a bang.

So many twists and turns, a slightly slow start but once it picks up it is pretty much non-stop until the end. Tears were shed, books were *almost* thrown at walls, squeals were heard near-constantly while reading, and my face looked pretty much like this →

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Animal death, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Kidnapping, Violence, Gun violence, Gore, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Torture, and Genocide

gayghostprince's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Torture, Murder, Grief, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Death of parent, and Body horror

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

strange's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-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? It's complicated

2.0

My thoughts on this book are so complicated. I didn’t hate it, and I really did like parts. But at the same time I’m glad to be done with this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

emilyz05's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Definitely more action than the other two books, but the book was building up tension only for me to be let down at the end. There were some cute Mal x Alina moments though.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

helpme71's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Grief, and Death

_becca_reads_'s review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

This is a strong ending to the shadows and bone trilogy. 

I do think that one of the biggest things that I didn’t like was the lack of Nikolai within this book, as he was the most enjoyable character for me. 
I also felt like the battle between the Darkling and Alina, though poignant, was a bit disappointing after waiting for three books for it. The writing in his death was moving and made me feel sad for him and also pity him. 

 
Nikolai, Genya, David and Zoya are my favourites! They are written so well. 
The ending was done well with the after section. I loved it, and it was sweet. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Blood

manarnia's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.5

I thought this was a great conclusion! The characters were all at their best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Body horror, and Confinement

Minor: Rape and Torture