Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee

69 reviews

rafacolog's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Bullying

reasek's review against another edition

adventurous 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: Murder

Moderate: Abandonment

robinks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

I couldn’t get over the fact that a queer woman avatar’s story was written by a man. Overall, Kiyoshi’s story seemed fitting for what we see of her in ATLA, and the descriptions allowed me to picture how this would look animated. I’m left with unanswered questions, so I’ll be continuing into the next volume.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, War, Child death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Animal death, and Grief

Minor: Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

ashlikes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Murder, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Medical content, Animal death, Abandonment, Blood, Drug use, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, War, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Classism, Physical abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Homophobia, and Torture

geekreate's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Abandonment

Minor: Kidnapping

My "child abuse" and "child death" tags are not connected. "Abandonment" and "child abuse" are, though.

For the death, the child in question is in their mid-teens.

amuletofkings's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

3.5

Did not expect to gain a new favorite villain!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Classism, Child death, Abandonment, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Lesbophobia, and Gore

geno's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, and Death

Moderate: Murder and Bullying

Minor: Kidnapping

ergaich's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Absolutely amazing.  I was worried this book wouldn’t live up to the ATLA series but it was everything I wanted and more. The characters were complex and imperfect making it sometimes difficult to love them, but it made them all the more real

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Confinement, Murder, and War

merenguita's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

The start and the ending were just perfect for me, they got me absolutley hooked and not wanting to put down the book. However the middle got a little muddy for me when all the new characters are introduced way too fast... but that might have been just me being distracted tbh. 
I would really want to reread and see if my rating changes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, and Violence

bakkuababy's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.75

the world building in the avatar universe will never ever disappoint. it’s so interesting to learn about kyoshi’s background; her bending, the fans, the outfit, the makeup, it all holds so much importance. also loved seeing an avatar that’s kind of feared ? solely because of the circumstances she’s been put in and how she kind of moulds herself into this figure seen by the public because of said circumstances. it was really refreshing as well to see her grow from how timid she was to this powerful being. 
this was a big upgrade in terms of violence and darkness compared to TLA where it was often sugarcoated to keep it PG and really caters to the audience/reader assuming that fans that grew up watching TLA are now adults. 
ALSO really loved the mini Easter eggs and references to TLA 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, Death, Blood, and Abandonment