Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

26 reviews

slahlum's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, War, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

bookaholic84's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

Wow; I finished this in one sitting what a fabulous book. I loved every second of it; without giving any spoilers all I will say is if you haven’t read it you must do so… 
The characters, the twists, the plot, I loved them all some I hated obviously but I loved that I hated them…  
I cannot wait to see where the rest of this series goes, so onto book 2 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, Slavery, and Blood

Minor: Murder and Death of parent

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

tiffanne11's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.25

The premise of this book was very interesting but it just didn't do it for me. There wasn't anything about it that wowed me and I felt like every twist had been done before.

The brother isn't dead. The radioactive area is actually safe and where the rebels are. The girl who fell into being chosen isn't alone in her specialness.

And I'm not sure if the whole red/silver thing is supposed to be a metaphor but if it was... It was poorly executed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Death, Murder, Slavery, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Classism, Xenophobia, and Violence

bookishbutterfly's review against another edition

hopeful 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Blood

Moderate: Torture and Slavery

catghost's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

3.5

knocked off half a star for predictability, though it was still exciting

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Slavery, Colonisation, and Confinement

Minor: War

cuddleemily's review

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

4.75

One of my favourite books - had me laughing and crying through the whole series. Would recommend to anyone who likes fantasy mixed with a form of plutocracy (the rich rule over the poor). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Violence, and Torture

carmineslamp's review

adventurous 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

3.5

Good concept (if a bit tried), mid execution. It feels like you get too much too fast. Personally, it felt like the events of the whole book occurred within the span of a week, instead of however long it actually took. Mare joins the revolution and "kills" it all in one week. It's good trashy, 2010s YA dystopia though, I guess. I can see why it got popular

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Torture, Death, and Slavery

Minor: War

bujo_bellel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

4.0

I quite enjoyed this book, I liked the ending and the different powers and stuff was really interesting. I liked the representation of the different sides of social status and the difference of treatment of the Reds and Silvers.

I'm so glad that there are more people like Mare and that Shade is still alive

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Torture, War, and Murder

Minor: Suicide and Slavery

makenna_reads's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, and Slavery