Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

95 reviews

fuelledbymonster's review

challenging dark 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Suicide, Torture, Murder, Violence, Police brutality, Blood, and Genocide

aggielexi's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

2.75

There were parts of this book I really liked, The last 100 pages specifically. But getting to that point was just ok. Then I kept reminding myself, oh hey, this is book one in a series....I MIGHT be intrigued enough to look at possibly reading the second book. But I'm not committing to it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Torture, and Death

bree_h_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Police brutality, Violence, Classism, Racism, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Confinement

Minor: Torture

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

eowyn_zoe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Classism, and Death

Minor: Torture and Murder

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

jpt007's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I have seen this book in every store for years now, so I though I’d finally take a few days to read it. I actually really loved it, while it did take a second to get into it, and I am looking forward to reading book 2.

Characters- 3.5/5*
They were interesting characters. Obviously the author put a lot of thought into creating them.

I especially liked the fact she didn’t have Cal join then in the end it felt very true to his nature.

I sometimes feel like Mare wasn’t 3D, that she was the classic protagonist you could put yourself into. So that would be my one complaint.

Conflict- 4/5*

So the revolution was the overall conflict.

I really thought it was clever and interesting but it took awhile to get there.

Plot- 3/5*
This is the category I really have problems with. Don’t get me wrong the plot was engaging but the story structure was off. It felt like too much exposition but at the same time too little. It felt like there were 5 different climaxes. At one point I even thought the book must be basically over and then it felt like we went into book 2. 

Setting- 3.5/5* 
It seems interesting but I want more details. This was a key part of the exposition that I felt was lacking. They told us about a bunch of locations but didn’t describe them. I don’t need Scott Fitzgerald but I would like some description to build my world view.

Theme- 4/5*
That’s what draws me to keep reading. The heart of this book is its theme. Bringing up this topic of what differences make you inferior vs superior. I think it’s a really interesting was the author brings it up with silver blood and red blood. Hopefully they Connie to build on it on the second book.

Overall Score: 3.6/5⭐️

I would recommend this look to anyone who loves dystopian and fantasy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Torture, and War

joylovestoread's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

This book was amazing and I 100% recommend reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Violence, Murder, War, Toxic relationship, and Torture

Moderate: Gun violence and Cursing

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