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rsagarin's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Kidnapping
naomi_k's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Death, Animal death, and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: War, Confinement, Dementia, and Torture
shieldbearer's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Death, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Grief, Animal death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death
Moderate: Murder, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Xenophobia, War, Chronic illness, Bullying, Gore, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Minor: Dementia and Fire/Fire injury
taliahsbookshelf's review
- 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
4.5
Favorite quotes:
"If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."(231)
"Boot's courage might only count when she could count, but her ability to love counted all the time."(278)
"While I have flight, I will be here always for you."(294)
"Gregor the Overlander, welcome to the city of Regalia!"(44)
"Run, boy. Run like the river. Fly you high, Gregor the Overlander!"(269)
"Where there's life, there's hope."(113)
"If you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible."(301)
"Even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel."(130)
"I am the warrior. I am he who called. Who among you dares banish Ares, my bond?"(293)
"Ares the flier, I bond to you. Our life and death are one, we two. In dark, in flame, in war, in strife, I save you as I save my life. [...] Gregor the human, I bond to you. Our life and death are one, we two. In dark, in flame, in war, in strife, I save you as I save my life."(293)
"I prefer to think of myself as a legend, but I suppose 'guide' will do."(199)
"Gregor the Overlander leaped."(266)
"It was a lie but people believed it, while no one seemed to believe the truth. Whatever that was."(11)
"He also had one amazing rat on his side."(262)
"If the seven of us sitting on this ledge are going to survive, we'll need a miracle. And that's when the miracle happened."(277)
"Gregor looked at the girl's face and could tell by her arrogant expression that there had been no luck involved at all."(26)
"As happy as some daydream would make him, it only made returning to reality more painful."(11)
"She sounded a thousand years old and a thousand miles away, but she did not sound scared."(261)
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, and Murder
Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Torture, and Toxic friendship