Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey

40 reviews

idfowler's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Gun violence

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

celenaahuman's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicide

bnwkr's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy

scmiller's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Death, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Child death, Gore, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, Mental illness, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Stalking

mardana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Gun violence, Violence, War, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Death

arborapollonis's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

Bought this book on a whim but was really pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it! The writer has a clear knack for building up and subverting both reader and genre expectations, which I really enjoyed. Another thing I really enjoyed were the pov switches, especially since it showed every character's limited knowledge of the world around them. Runs a little long, but I found the tension doesn't suffer under it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I haven't seen the tv show. I've only seen one short clip of a character saying

they wanted to go outside / they're lying to us

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Really enjoyed the writing style and the narration. 

Loved the feeling of tension created through

POV characters getting murdered, made you feel like anything could happen to any of the characters! Really made the 2 fake-out deaths super effective!

I also really enjoyed the inclusion of an unexpected theme

(romance)

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The only thing I didn't love was that part of the story didn't make sense to me when I thought more about it

like I don't get why the deepdowners were so keen on immediate revolution

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Murder, Torture, Violence, War, Confinement, and Classism

oddpilot97's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

The concept is amazing. So engaging as a dystopian book lover.

But, can I get a shred of character development? Or anyone's motivation? The main male love interest is blander than a piece of wonderbread. I was sitting there begging to understand what his interests were, why he was taking the angle he was, or just a scrap of context for his actions. It never came. It was so bad that

when we thought he died in the fire, I thought to myself, "well, at least we won't have to keep trying to care about him for the next two books.

Same complaint for Juliette. I wanted to love her, but I needed more to get there. I watched the TV show first and felt similarly like the character was flat, but at least in the show, you can see facial expressions which add a speck of understanding of someone. The only character that I felt like I understood their motivation was the "crazy guy". He knew what he wanted and he was gonna stick with that.

I just didn't care about any of the characters. And when

the revolution started

and they were focusing on several different men from mechanical, I spent a long time going "Who is that guy and that guy and that guy? They are all different?" I had to look up a character chart to keep them separate. That part as a whole was boring, and I was just waiting through those chapters for it to flip back to the more interesting storyline.

I also felt like the "reveals" and "twists" were often way undersold in the book (I'm glad I watched the show first because they were so juicy there!) I think to have a proper twist, you first have the clearly set the expectations first. The reader can't go "holy cow, everything they knew was a lie!!" if we aren't sure about what they knew in the first place.

I know that was a good amount of criticism, but overall it was an enjoyable listen. It's no Hunger Games or Ready Player One, but it's worth a read if you're into the genre. And hey, maybe you like a little wiggle room with your characters to be able to use your imagination, so you'll really enjoy filling in the gaps yourself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence, Cursing, War, Classism, Death, Excrement, Suicide, Gun violence, Murder, and Blood

cat12345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Body horror, Cursing, Excrement, Infertility, Gore, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Police brutality, Child abuse, Incest, Stalking, and Bullying