Reviews tagging 'Death'

Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

15 reviews

sarahsbooklife's review

dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, War, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, and Vomit

Moderate: Medical content, Xenophobia, Murder, and Child death

Minor: Animal death, Cannibalism, Colonisation, and Genocide

nadiaherondale's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I wasn't a big fan of war scenes in books up until now you know. Loving all of these

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Death, Child death, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Religious bigotry

electricdryad's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• 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: Murder, Trafficking, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Slavery, War, Torture, Death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Xenophobia

sixlimbs's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Cannibalism, Cursing, Death, Genocide, and Gun violence

Minor: Toxic relationship

vigil's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Murder, Miscarriage, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Violence, Xenophobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Trafficking, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

pastel_princess's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cursing, Grief, Gore, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Murder, and Gun violence

Minor: Vomit

someonehere25's review

dark reflective

• 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: Murder, Gun violence, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Slavery

trash_reader_'s review

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.5

This story is heart-breaking and intense. The artwork is beautiful and dark and adds to the narrative.

Maika is finally starting to question the events in her life and the past she both can remember and cannot remember, which gives the story a more personal touch to it. Maika went the entire series only caring about one thing and being nasty to others when they got in her way or didn't 

I still adore Kippa, and I love her fighting spirit and her bravery. I'm a little confused on the lore with Zinn, though. It just kind of came out of nowhere it seemed.

This series, and this book specifically, is heavy on the politics aspect of the story. There's a lot of double-crossing and treachery and secret motives involved in every decision made, but they don't really seem that connected. I'm hoping things get more cleared up in the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Child death

brookey8888's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.0

I honestly have no clue what is happening but I still enjoy this because I like the characters I’m just not following the plot. It literally goes right over my head.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War

ceilidhwilliams's review

adventurous challenging dark 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: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Slavery, Torture, and Violence