Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

60 reviews

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Rape, and Torture

paili's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Grief, Drug use, Addiction, Blood, War, Violence, Misogyny, and Gun violence

Moderate: Trafficking, Sexual assault, and Torture

Minor: Child abuse

bookaholic_in_wonderland's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Minor: Blood, Death, Sexism, and Torture

stormzx's review against another edition

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

4.5

zoya is the queen of my heart

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Grief, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Body horror, War, Violence, Torture, Sexism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Minor: Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Genocide, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Torture, Slavery, Racism, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Gun violence

electrumempousa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

This was probably my least favourite book of the series. I’m not sure completely why - it was a lot of politics, a lot of war, too many POVs, some extremely questionable choices that felt like they existed only to suddenly drive the plot and hurt the reader, rather than as a genuine twist. I made it through because I love the characters - but this isn’t a book you can pick up and love without already being heavily invested. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Torture

injiofthebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, War, Addiction, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, and Sexism

sammymilfort's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Racial slurs, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Religious bigotry, Torture, and War

erins_bookshelf_'s review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

First of all, all hail Dragon Queen Zoya

 
I really liked this one, probably in my top three grishaverse books (it was a little slow getting into but that final battle scene was absolutely amazing) BUT THE END FELT LIKE A CLIFFHANGER SO Leigh is there going to be another book because if there isn’t going to be another one I might cry

I need more Zoyalai and Nina/Hanne (I wish we knew what name they picked because I don’t want to be deadnaming but there was no decision so) also I need to see what shenanigans Kaz and his besties get up to next because that ending was definitely setting up a SoC 3/ KoS 3 (even though Leigh’s probably gonna kill someone else I NEED MORE)

 
Anyway that was great but I need to read something short next because Leigh certainly loves writing long chapters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Torture, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault