Reviews tagging 'Violence'

La primera y última nieve by Max Gladstone, Alejandro Romero

5 reviews

thebuttler's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.5

Like a lot of other reviewers, I struggled with the early part of this book. Honestly, it took me until everything hit the fan for things to click into place and I really began to care about everybody in this story (except Elayne who we have no choice but to stan). As usual the world of the Craft Sequence is top-notch, and everything I learn just heightens the picture for me, but Last First Snow took it's time hooking me. I'm still going to read everything set in this world, but, I can't see Last First Snow hooking first time readers the way I could see Three Parts Dead doing that, despite it being the first book in the sequence. It's just...an oddly framed book, with characters that are difficult to connect with until you do.

The Major made me cry, though. I think The Major was a really brilliant, beautiful demonstration of how gender-nonconforming characters can hold significant space within a story without it being about their gender. The moment was all of two paragraphs long, but they are a brilliant two paragraphs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, and Religious bigotry

odunayo_y's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Religious bigotry

krystaldelusion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, and War

efratmaor's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Read this first, as chronologically it is the first, I guess it works better if one reads in order of writing/release, as this one was disappointing and way too slow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Gun violence

troisha's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Police brutality

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Vomit

Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Kidnapping