Reviews tagging 'War'

Skyhunter by Marie Lu

32 reviews

myakemovic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

janiceinwonderland's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.5

me when i started the first chapter:
me when i finished the first chapter: 👁️👄👁️

as someone that finished attack on titan, i couldn’t help but draw the similarities between the world in skyhunter and that. won’t lie— after seeing how much of the aot plot was revealed by the time marie lu could’ve started writing, there are a lot of parallels, but i couldn’t feel them by the time i was well into the book.

another weird bit of context for my read (i’m treating this more as a journal entry now lol), i picked this up to fill the hole in my heart that was left by xiran jay zhao’s iron widow…and i hate to say that this was a far more enjoyable read (still love the book though.) marie lu writes some captivating action sequences and gives us a lot more time to enjoy and get to know our characters in this book.

i’m likely going to immediately pick up steelstriker because im hooked

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Violence

Minor: Xenophobia

soulpromise'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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, War, and Physical abuse

achay91's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Torture, Death of parent, and Physical abuse

Minor: Grief

guessgreenleaf's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Colonisation, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, War, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pelb's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I really wanted to like this book, but it just wasn’t it for me. I’m a huge attack on titan fan, so I thought this book would be great since it’s an similar premise. Unfortunately it’s a little too similar in some aspects. This is like if attack on titan was a book, and it was way more boring and predictable. The plot was interesting but as I said, unoriginal, which I would have been able to get past if the characters were better. Sadly, the characters were my biggest problem with this book. They were so one dimensional and bland that I didn’t even care what happened to them. I couldn’t connect with them at all which made the story uninteresting. They all had literally no individual personalities, which was very disappointing. There were definitely good aspects of this book, like the prose was very beautiful and it had great diversity and representation. But overall, to me it’s flaws out way the positives, so I wouldn’t recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, War, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

ashylibrarian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.0

I would love to see this book turned into a visual creation. I think the concept of the Skyhunter, the war machine, would be so interesting to see brought to life in a visual format.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, and Blood

Minor: Torture and Death of parent

lydz1106's review

adventurous 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Child abuse and Racism

artmuseam's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

currently struggling to find the right words to describe this breathtaking,  action-packed story. i’ve always been a fan of marie lu’s works and how they keep you reading until you’ve reached the end of the novel. i was introduced to a world that made me fall in love with all the characters and the ways they worked together to fight against monsters that i pitied rather than hated. this book kept me at the edge of my seat until the very end and i can’t wait to start the next one! 10/10 recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Grief, War, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Genocide, Death, Classism, and Cursing

daretodream03's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Blood, War, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Confinement

Minor: Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Torture, Vomit, and Physical abuse