Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

76 reviews

ashyq's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Gore, and Vomit

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

filipa_maia's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

 This book is not for the faint of heart. I was not expecting this kind of gore when I choose this read. I am not disappointed!

I really enjoyed this story: so full of twist and turns, strong and badass female characters and overall scary. Everything that I could ask in a good book.

Is really interesting to see how the girls see this "new world": once schoolmates become completely strangers and the "every man for himself" mentality kicks in, as soon as the disease (and the shortage of food) spreads around. In the end, the ties of love and friendship are bigger than everything else. And that's the big, an important, message this book provides.

Loved it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Self harm, and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment

agustdefault's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Suicide, Death, and Death of parent

lil13's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Vomit, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Bullying, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicidal thoughts

maddy_s's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Child death, Self harm, and Suicide

Minor: Cursing, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

reasalic's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.75

I was first drawn in by the cover, then decided to read it as my third book of 1000 doors (the print was something about a pandemic). i didn’t know what to expect but I loved it, all up until the ending. i felt like I’d got near the end and the last few pages had been ripped out, even for an open ending it left me so confused, especially knowing there won’t be a sequel. 3.75 stars because I loved the rest of it and it was hella gay

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Child death

moontiaras's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, and Violence

spearly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

I'm not gonna be adding much to my review that hasn't already been said.

The good:

Very atmospheric. I could see the school, the girls, the terror so clearly. I loved the queerness, I loved the mystery, the hopelessness.

I liked how different Hatty's and Byatt's POVs were. 

The iffy:

That ending. I'm so unsatisfied! We ~kind of~ get a clue as to what the Tox is, but no solution, no conclusion, no big reveal. The whole time I was waiting for the shoe to drop - the teachers are involved?? The Tox is manmade?? It's spread beyond the borders of the school?? There IS no world outside the borders?? But nothing. I was left feeling like I'd wasted my time with this one. Definitely not the horror it's labelled as.

Overall, not a book I'd recommend but not awful either. Just incomplete. 2.5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide

alexandrabelze's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Medical content, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence and Medical trauma

Minor: Animal death

catboypaws's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Vomit, Torture, Suicide, Self harm, Violence, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Animal death