Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

19 reviews

unremi's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Epic dystopian 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Death, War, Genocide, and Stalking

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Torture, Classism, Confinement, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Slavery, and Murder

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

rafacolog's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Bullying, Emotional abuse, War, and Blood

sarahelyse's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.5

The pace and excitement of this book grabbed my attention and kept it the whole time! This book got me out of a long reading slump. Reading it a second time, there were a few things that I picked up on that didn't quite make sense, but not enough to pull me out of the experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, War, Torture, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Classism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

camiclarkbooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

Fun read! Th blending of fantasy elements and a dystopian future came across a little jerky in some areas, but it was a refreshing change of pace from you standard high fantasy story. 

I definitely see why Red Queen has maintained hype over the years. The main characters are interesting—though our FMC is definitely a little more whiney than I typically prefer—and the twists were great!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Blood, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent

aubreypourbaix's review

adventurous challenging mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, War, Suicide, Murder, and Emotional abuse

pandareader24's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Omg. This book. This is not my kind of genre I normally read, but omg I feel like this book has changed me! The last few chapters had me in shock and covering my mouth!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, War, Blood, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

rdawnl's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

The day after I finished this book I went back to my local bookstore to buy the rest of the series. Such an interesting story and concept. The romance piece was a bit immature but the characters are teens so it's appropriate. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Blood, and War

thisisfee's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Torture, Murder, Emotional abuse, and War

zoeelora's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and War