Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

15 reviews

fiwilson's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Abandonment

booksnart2023's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death, Misogyny, and War

gdwilliams019's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Sexism, and Kidnapping

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual content

hanz's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, and Violence

Minor: Racial slurs and Rape

fiwilson's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

styxx's review

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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual harassment

sflory910's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

3.75

A good, quick read! A little cliched, but still enjoyable. I’m excited to read the next in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

tonton2612's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious relaxing tense fast-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

5.0

This a great series by Patricia Briggs. I love the character and the plots!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Kidnapping

Minor: Gun violence

dreamerfreak's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Violence

misterwisp's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The strong points are that it's a fast paced read and has a well written main character. The setting is straightforward urban fantasy where supernatural creatures are real and in the modern world etc. This version of that has the supernatural world only being partially publicly known. Only one type of creature is known openly in regular human society but others are not. 
The big focus is on werewolves and their society. There is much ado about pack dominance structure that felt like it took itself too seriously and came across a bit dated and boring. There is all this stuff about how the Alpha can't show weakness around his pack and there are all sorts of hierarchy dynamics that play out. Only the men can be alphas and so on. The main character is outside of all of this and has to navigate through it, so I think it's maybe meant to be an analogy for regular real world society, but it felt a bit too cliche to really be something to like reading about. The main character is fun but all the werewolf ones seemed kind of obnoxious and I didn't understand what Mercy Thompson saw in them. In real life the whole idea of an "alpha" wolf leading others through dominance is being debunked, so maybe I brought that into the book more than I should have.
The ending felt a bit convoluted and too easy. 
It was good to read and I think well written in terms of the main character and world. I think one's enjoyment depends on how much you're willing to tolerate stereotypes of "alpha" men. Despite the cringey parts I was left somewhat still wanting to try the sequel which I think shows the writing has strong points. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Miscarriage

it is mentioned in passing about minor side characters having experienced miscarriages in the past