Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill

10 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

vairse's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

3.75

Basically Mad Max but robots. For once, I actually feel like this story would have played out better on a screen than it did in a book. The action scenes were well done and interesting, but the descriptions started getting repetitive by the end. There are only so many ways a bot can be killed by a plasma rifle before the descriptions start to blend together. There were a few plot points that didn't feel real that I don't think I'd have noticed as much in a movie theater, and Cargill has a habit of ending every single chapter with some sort of pithy one liner. Beyond that, I really enjoyed the exploration of close-to-human-but-not robots dealing with the world humans left them, and most of the characters were interesting and easy to fall for. I especially enjoyed the depictions of the "illness" bots go through when their systems start to wear down.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Genocide, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death

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

mar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

The western/Mad Max vibe was fun, but the robots just feel... too human? like i straight up kept forgetting the main character (and every other character) was a robot. maybe I'm just spoiled by murderbot but like, there's ways to make robots relatable/emotional/fallible/etc without making them feel "basically human." i mean where's the CREATIVITY!!!

(also utterly baffled by the "voice pitch = gender" choice. Those Are Robots. why would it work like that. how would that work for anyone whose pronouns arent he or she)

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Sexual content

Minor: Ableism

The "cannibalism" content warnings from other users are a bit misleading; there is no what you're likely to think of as "actual" cannibalism in the book. There is, however, a lot of robots killing each other to use the other's parts, which the characters refer to as cannibalism once or twice.

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

v171's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

Fantastic read. It's been a while since I've read such a solidly constructed, gritty sci-fi. Don't let the genre guide your judgment though. This is very much a western story in a sci fi setting, which isn't necessarily new, but I've never seen it done like this before. 

The story was really captivating from the very first page. I found the dystopia/paradise/dystopia plotline to be really fascinating and well constructed. The characters were fantastic and disturbingly human considering they were all robots. But I suppose that was one of the major themes of the book after all! Anyway, read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts