Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Angelfall by Susan Ee

10 reviews

bamfling's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Kidnapping, Gore, Child death, Cannibalism, Abandonment, and Child abuse

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Child death, Kidnapping, and Cannibalism

prashiie's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

“When you're small enough to have to look up at everyone around you, there's no such thing as a dirty fight.”

Basically, the world as we know it has ended, angels are everywhere and humans are trying to survive. An interesting plot! We have angels against angels and Penryn who is trying to survive with her little sister who is in a wheelchair and mother who has schizophrenia and is both intriguing and scary. I didn’t expect her mother to survive and I was surprised to see how self-reliant she was when left on her own. I hope she’ll get a bigger role in the next two books.

The writing felt a little off in the beginning, mainly because of the over-explaining and this made it harder to really get into the book. But I have to say that it got better or maybe I just got used to it. The story also got more interesting later on, so that helps!

Now I’m debating whether to read the other books or not. I didn’t love this book, it was okay but on the other hand

I want to know how Paige ended up in a wheelchair–because I don’t believe it’s their mother’s fault–and why the angels are even on Earth and what is going on with them.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Slavery, and Vomit

psliz's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

1.0

so beyond ableist i couldn't finish (DNF'd at page 71). but it gave me the opportunity to finally give myself permission to dnf books and the opportunity to get educated on ableist terms/phrases

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Ableism, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Medical trauma, Murder, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Cannibalism, War, and Child abuse

Minor: Abandonment and Child death

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Gore, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Vomit, Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, War, Body horror, Slavery, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Blood, and Confinement

abesreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual harassment

Minor: Kidnapping

tinkithesquirelll's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Confinement, Chronic illness, Death, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Dementia, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War, Violence, Sexual harassment, Outing, Gore, Murder, Medical content, Vomit, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Torture, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

loniceralibrary's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Cannibalism, and Body horror

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Trafficking, and War

Minor: Kidnapping and Vomit

hellenalawliet's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, and Medical trauma

house_of_hannah's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

What did I just read ? lol. So I feel like this book has no idea what it wants to be. We have post-apocalyptic, horror, sci-fi, romance, and everything in between. The second half of the book felt completely different from the first, and the entirety of the story is filled with scenes that are laughably wtf. 

I know it's the first book of a series, but we get absolutely no answers, so I'm left feeling unsatisfied. The end is something out of Resident Evil, which I would normally enjoy, but just felt completely ridiculous in this story. 

This book took a lot darker of a turn than I expected, and even though I have no idea what the hell is going on, I was entertained. Overall, It's fine. I doubt I will read the sequels, and I really wish this had been a more complete book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Kidnapping