Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

15 reviews

abigail_horn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Violence

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

Trigger warning: murder of a dog. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Torture, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Violence, War, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Misogyny, Death, Death of parent, Sexism, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lonelylooper's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Animal death, Medical content, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Suicide, Torture, and Mental illness

sunflower7skull's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

OH MY GOD. WHAT WAS THAT ENDING. ugh i loved this book but the ending left me disappointed tbh... otherwise really interesting worldbuilding and narrative!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gun violence, Death, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Suicide, Grief, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, and Forced institutionalization

filipa_maia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

It took me over two years to finish this book.. and no, it not because I'm a slow reader. I hate to 'DNF' books. I can't do it because my brain needs closure: finish a book, write a review and put the book away.

The story is not bad: a world where love is a disease and there is a medical procedure to cure it. People who fall in love are sick. Easy as that. Now, there is a bunch of plot holes to this narrative - if the medical procedure cures you from love, we are talking about ALL THE LOVE romantic and non-romantic. Right? Am i missing something here? Maybe there is something here that I'm not getting. And then this book is unnecessarily big. It could be way shorter, and way more interesting, if we didn't spend so much time reading, with immense detail, every single thought she has. That's why I had to put it down the first time - I was so bored.

Of course that me, being me, I need to read the second book because this one ends in a cliffhanger. I just need to know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gaslighting, Torture, Grief, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Bullying, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Animal death and Police brutality

kamrynkoble's review

adventurous emotional tense 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? Yes

4.25

Middle school Kam bad taste. This was one of my favorites and it was SO fun to revisit it. It’s definitely one of the better YA dystopians. I found the audiobook narrator very annoying, but that’s no fault of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death

laurenevlyn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Didn’t love it. DNFed about 2/3 of the way through because it was just so slow paced and I could feel it putting me in a reading slump. Maybe I’ll get back to it one day but for now it was just okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia

rh1714's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

crybabybea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Death

mindins'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Animal death

Minor: Death of parent