Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Dark Age by Pierce Brown

51 reviews

avmanson'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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Genocide, Murder, Child death, Death, Rape, Slavery, Torture, and War

seasonedreadings's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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: Violence, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Minor: Incest

josiah17's review against another edition

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

4.5

"You know I believe we all begin equal parts light and dark. I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends."

This is certainly one of the most bleak and gruesome books I will ever read. But besides one twist that I didn't like, this was a great step up from Iron Gold. Finally getting Mustang POVs was such a great treat. 

And regarding the Mustang POVs, getting inside her head added so much of value to the story. I feel like after being frustrated with Darrow's arc in Iron Gold, understanding Mustang's view on his actions helped me better understand Darrow. That was an excellent writing choice by Pierce Brown.

Overall, great book. Looking forward to Light Bringer. 

Edit 7/28/23: changed rating from 4.75 to 4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Incest and Sexual content

smmarshall221's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Child abuse

dominerdy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A true return to form. The additional POVs really help to flesh out and widen the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Body horror, Child death, Sexual assault, and Violence

sask_girl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Child death, Death, Body horror, Rape, Pedophilia, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gore, Gun violence, and Infidelity

Moderate: Grief, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Addiction, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

sylvestra's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Death, Blood, War, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Grief, and Incest

Minor: Homophobia, Slavery, and Torture

islandbookwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, War, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Abortion, Child death, Sexual assault, Slavery, Grief, Violence, Genocide, and Torture

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Incest

boomwormbrittany's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

Dark Age is the fifth book in the Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown. The first book, Red Rising follows a man named Darrow who is living in a society dictated by color. He is a Red, considered the lowest class and is thought to be terraforming Mars for human occupation. But when Darrow's wife is killed and his world is shattered, he finds that everything is not as it seems.
I love the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown so much. I read the first book around the time the second one came out and I fell in love with the writing and the world. This book wasn't any different. 
It had been awhile since I read the last book in this series so it took me a bit to get back into the world and the characters but when I was back in, I was hooked. This book is huge but it's so packed full of action both physically and politically. We follow characters from the original series and some new ones and I love all of them.
The world in this series just keeps expanding and I love learning more about it. We get to know more about the other color classes and their people's beliefs. I love the cast of characters we have and how they are all so different and distinct from each other. 
This book had several moments where I gasped out loud and some that even made me cry. There was two particular deaths in this that really got to me. 
Overall, I am so excited (and a little scared) to see what Pierce Brown has in store for the next books in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Child death, and Violence

surbhi_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Genocide, Death, Incest, Racism, War, and Gore