Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

4 reviews

da3m0nic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, War, Sexual content, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Gore, Murder, Animal death, Alcohol, Grief, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Incest, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Torture, Pregnancy, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Body shaming, Animal death, and Infidelity

palindromereads's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Emotional abuse, Torture, Murder, and Physical abuse

darkkrusader's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Moderate: Racism

srm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

4.5

Honestly, I'm still pretty shaken from the end of this series, and I'm not sure if my rating will stand, and I know even less what to say about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Cursing and Gore

Minor: Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Torture, Xenophobia, and Sexual content