Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

7 reviews

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

emperordzi's review

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, War, Colonisation, Classism, Racism, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

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

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

gabrielleclarke05's review

I’m sorry I just can’t idk why maybe it’s the writing. I might come back to it one day

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, War, Classism, Colonisation, Violence, and Confinement

rohirrimgirl's review

adventurous sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Boring. Plot twists were not enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gore, Colonisation, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, and Slavery

kbairbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a DENSE book. It was THIQQUE with world building and just… so fuckin much political anguish. The scenes of torture and abuse and the beheading scene were intense and the corrupt, the betrayal, the pain. It was a whole lot. And the surprise ending was… wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Minor: Cancer and Child death