Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

25 reviews

lorraine19's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

I rarely find the sequels to books better than the original, but this one I definitely do. As I said with my divergent review, I watched the movies first and enjoyed them. However, the movies didn't even touch on the psychological aspect that is the main point in this book. Ya you get to look at the other factions and the story is good, but what really makes it great is the way Tris' mental health is discussed. This is the dark, realistic stuff that makes books so good and relatable. Love the exploration of, not only a complex society, but complex characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, War, Torture, Genocide, Murder, Gun violence, Death of parent, Death, Mental illness, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Abandonment

theklutzybibliophile's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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: Blood, Death of parent, War, Violence, and Torture

this_is_lee's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective fast-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? Yes

4.5

I totally forgot how good this book is. Some of my favourite moments happen and it is such a strong continuation of Divergent. We are so much world building and character development as it transitions into much darker themes. 
Overall a solid book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

hazydazywaffles's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.0

I didn't like this book. Personally, I found it just very depressing. Tris is dealing with the grief of killing her friend in self-defense and it is just a really heavy topic. I won't recommend this book nor will i finish the series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Cursing, Grief, Torture, and Death

crochetplush's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Torture

my3bb8's review

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Death, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Gore, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Confinement and Toxic relationship

kirsto's review

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I forgot how annoying both Tris and Tobias are. Guess they’re really meant for each other! Also, this book in seriously messed up—and not even an interesting, morally ambiguous way, like in a pretty much everyone has murdered or been complicit in the murders of innocent people way. Why were we all reading this in middle school!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, Torture, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

anniereads221's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, War, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Vomit

elderflower's review against another edition

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

3.0

Disappointing sequel to an amazing book :( 
I feel like 60% of this book is just violence so… yeah not for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Torture, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, and Death of parent

More content warnings: terrorism, PTSD, nightmares

rayne_1906's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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

2.75

Audiobook - In some ways, I enjoyed this book more than the first book - in others, I really disliked it. The actual plot is interesting enough, if not a little slow. However, the whole thing is interspersed with arguments and conflicts between the two main characters that started off okay but got boring really fast. Also, Tris becomes almost unbearable as a quirky main character, all self-deprecating and cannot see anything beyond herself at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence