Reviews tagging 'War'

Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill

8 reviews

linda48's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

misty_kb's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gun violence, Genocide, Child death, and Violence

sunkissedcat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Genocide, Grief, Murder, and War

Minor: Child death

avilareads's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and War

Minor: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

secondhandbookshelves's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Well, from the summary it seemed like a very interesting book, but it was a robot war with very graphic bits about killing humans, then turned to robot vs robot war, complete with robot Jesus and rednecks.
Not sure what I was expecting but it wasn't this.
Some parts were slightly humorous but almost all of the twists you can see coming if you've read any scifi or mysteries. 
I skipped MINUTES in the audiobooks because of some of the descriptions of violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Child death, Gun violence, Murder, Body horror, Death, Violence, and War

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Gun violence, Genocide, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Slavery

Minor: Cannibalism

sarah984's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

2.0

This is sort of an action-adventure western set in the aftermath of a robot apocalypse. The robots do still feel pretty human for the most part though - they describe things in relation to how humans would perceive them ("humans would think this smelled bad") and gender each other based on voice for some reason. There are lots of gunfights if you like that sort of thing but other than that I didn't feel like very much actually happened. At one point the entire plot grinds to a halt so the characters can talk about how much they love America, which was weird. The epilogue somehow manages to negate all of the main character’s development and the big twist doesn't really end up mattering all that much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, and War

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

norwegianforestreader's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, War, Terminal illness, Slavery, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Genocide, Death, Child death, and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal death