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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

6 reviews

noellegrace8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

What a great second book! We're given new characters that are just as vibrant as book one, and the plot really picks up. The beginning can be a little frustrating/disorienting as you get used to who is who, but it is quickly intriguing. It's obvious that the plot was clearly laid out from the inception of these books because of its intricacies. Some people may be frustrated with the lack of Kai in this one, and it is more gory than book one. Sometimes the new characters can be a bit toxic, but it also makes them interesting.

I do not factor audiobook narrators' performances into in my overall star rating of a book, but I would give Rebecca Soler a 4.5/5. She did better with this one than the last, with a bit more variance in her emotion, although it still drones or falls flat in parts. Her accents were quite good, actually allowing me to know who was talking when. However, I started to wonder why Scarlet has a French accent (typically, though sometimes Soler forgets to use it) but Kai, for instance, has an American one even though he lives in New Beijing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Classism, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Colonisation, Medical trauma, War, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Minor: Toxic relationship, Child death, Misogyny, Stalking, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Torture, Alcoholism, Addiction, Medical content, Rape, Alcohol, Confinement, Vomit, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Suicide, Genocide, Mental illness, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

The items I included in "Graphic" are mostly due to violence throughout the book related to themes and characters. This second book contained much more of that than the first. Items in "moderate" are either thematic in occurrence or are detailed enough to warrant more than a brief warning. I did want to explicitly inform the potential reader about my sexual violence/rape warning: it is only threateded/mentioned once in nongraphic terms. It never actually happens/happened.

muff1n_xd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

Read: feb 23 2024
Reviwed: may 28 2024

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

As im writiting this i have read winter and im waiting for the graphic novles

I never reviwed this one when i finished so here we go

MAN I LOOOOVE WOLF AND SCARLET SOOO CUTE AHHH if you read my review abt the "queens army" you will understand how much i love wolf lol 

And scarlet is SO👏FRICKING👏COOL👏 ( i now want a gun and red hoodie lol)

And i loved cinder and thorns friendship lol
 when they first meet THE SOAP CONVO LOOL (iykyk)

 and the 

"you opened my control pannel?"

 

"I didn't want to"

 

" well i guess that was pretty fast thinking"

  

"We're having another moment, aren't we?"

" if by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then i guess we are. Although maybe im just too exhasted to want to strangle anybody."

"I'll take it"

Fave quotes

"you’re the only one, scarlet. you’ll always be the only one."

🍅And🍅

“i would rather die because i betrayed them, then live because i betrayed you.”

What can i say i read this book in 2 days lol and i think its my fave other than winter its tied with cress 

I hope you enjoy/enjoyed this book as much as i do

Happy reading🍅❤
-Muffin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Violence, Gore, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Torture

Minor: Abandonment, Vomit, and Alcoholism

thumbeleia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Blood, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Vomit, War, Abandonment, Ableism, Classism, Death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail

bean_7088's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Aggressive wolf love interest trope but fairytaleesk and space stuff.

Kai is still annoying, I don't understand him or his decisions. 
While I am a but of a sucker fo  the more awful abusive relationship garbage,  especially possessive wolf boys, I have less patience for it now, especially books directe at teens. It’s bad. If a boy is like Wolf, get him into therapy, don't become his "Alpha female" 🙄
Scarlet was pretty annoying with the "omg I wanna kiss you 💋 😘 " 

I loved Thorn. Cinder was mostly better, and I missed Aiko. 

As eye rolly as it is, I would have adored this in high school. And it is fun. 

Can't wait to get through the books I wanted to read years ago 😅

Oh also, gay wolf's apparently don't exist in this world.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Violence, Domestic abuse, Death, and Gaslighting

maria_pell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Hate crime, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death and Vomit

anielabooks's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved this book. At first I was mad that it kept switching from Cinder’s perspective but I grew to love Scarlet’s story too. I hope to get more insight on Carswell in future books. It was a bit predictable like the first book in the series but that didn’t take away from its charm. Wish we would’ve gotten Iko a body finally. Excited for how the next book is gonna tie in another protagonist!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism, Vomit, Suicide, Self harm, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Medical content, Gun violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, and Colonisation