Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Gods & Monsters by Shelby Mahurin

8 reviews

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Hate crime, Gore, Child death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Animal death, Alcohol, Grief, Abandonment, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Infidelity, Stalking, Misogyny, and Cannibalism

what_karla_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Cursing, and Grief

kat1105's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Classism, Death of parent, Murder, War, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Kidnapping, Death, and Torture

lizgriffinwords's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-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

4.25

Was this my favorite book ever? No.

Did it deliver on all its promises and provide a satisfying conclusion? In my opinion, yes.

It’s slow and rambly at times, and the unnecessary sex scenes are eye-roll-inducing, but I recognize that it takes a lot of skill to make readers root for such a variety of characters, from the most crass and cantankerous to the prissy, holier-than-though types. The entire last 20% is an edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-your-throat roller coaster.

Content warnings: fire, death, near-drowning

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Torture

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Cursing, Grief, Confinement, and Self harm

erin_robbins19's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

This final book in the trilogy wrapped the series up so nicely. It was a nice change of pace after the too slow book 2. The twists were genuinely surprising, but on track for the characters. I definitely did not expect to have my heart wrenched out during the epilogue, but I sure did have that happen.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, and Religious bigotry

leedolee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

This series has easily stolen a place in my heart and these characters will truly remain favorites of my mine. 

The world, the magic, the action, the drama, the twists, the relationships, and the plot were outstanding! Yes, my least favorite trope was found in this book but I enjoyed the novel regardless. 

Lou and Reid will be one of my favorite ships. Always. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Alcohol

sophiesmallhands's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual content and Child death