Reviews tagging 'War'

Kniha M by Peng Shepherd

12 reviews

bookedinthebakery's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.5

Peng Shepherd has done it again! She really commits to her concepts and thinks about how her characters will react within the world she’s created. Even though it’s a sci fi/dystopian/almost fantasy read, I was more emotionally connected to these characters than I was expecting to be. I was completely engrossed in the story, but I knocked my rating down to 4.5 because there were some fantasy/magical elements that weren’t really explained and some storylines that didn’t fit well for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

maustin18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I defintely did not see the shadow/person who collects being a god and then Max's shadow being attached to another's body. That was interesting and weird at the same time. I like the ties the author did to the Indian religion with the elephant god and the first man to lose his shadow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and War

Minor: Animal death

erinwolf1997's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dementia, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Body horror, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

secretsoup's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

Amazing book, hard to get through emotionally. I would never read this again but if you’re into survival/apocalypse stuff and aren’t stressed out by characters starving or dying… give it a read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, and War

Minor: Confinement

avesmaria's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Gore

mbrenner's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

kitkathw871's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.5

I couldn't really put it down once I got started. The plot builds up and once you're hooked, you need to see it through to the end. Love perseveres through the most difficult times and the best of humanity will pull through. This one is going to stick with me for a while!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

ann40's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and War

dev921's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Infidelity, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Car accident, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kingsteph's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic