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Poster Girl by Veronica Roth

10 reviews

historyoftape's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

Maybe reading darker books on airplanes will be a new habit. In any case I read this in one day of travel, which was unexpected for me as I thought this might be a book I'd have to sit with some more. It definitely covers some themes that will haunt me for a while, but at the same time the style is more quiet and calm so I felt like I had the time to think about things without being distracted by action or too many twists. There were twists, don't get me wrong, and action, but probably due to the main character's quietness and detatchedness they were less the forefront. 

I enjoyed how more and more bits and pieces of the characters stories are revealed as time passes on, and how some decisions make more sense in hindsight with the new knowledge I gained. This book also did a really good job at making morally grey characters lovable, and even evil ones likeable. As it says at one point, no amount of loving anyone will make them a better/good person. 

All in all I really liked this, even though it is not the genre I usually go for :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Spyware, being monitored by an implant

katenovah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Sexual content, Blood, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Child death, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Violence

prairieraven's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Murder, Physical abuse, Death, Bullying, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Classism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Police brutality, Abandonment, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Violence

abby271's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Child death, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

aggie24's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual content and Child death

annamorgan27's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Child death, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content

americandropout's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, Murder, and Confinement

Moderate: Classism, Alcoholism, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

ems_rxlibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Cursing and Child death

Minor: Sexual content

keepcalmblogon's review against another edition

mysterious 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

Veronica Roth is an autobuy author for me, so when the chance to win a signed ARC of Poster Girl popped up from William Morrow Books, I took it! I cannot describe how excited I was when I found out I won (there was lots of dancing and screaming)! 

Poster Girl feels like Divergent all grown up. I don’t mean that in any kind of negative way, but it explores the sins of a child through her grown-up eyes in a dystopian world that exists after an uprising. So, if you’ve read Divergent and have since grown up (like myself), you’ll know what I mean if you read this. 

I found this story to be the perfect standalone and discovered a number of insightful kernels that I promptly page-marked. Despite outwardly dealing with problems only imaginable in our world, Poster Girl speaks to underlying universalities of the human experience. 

Poster Girl is absolutely five stars for me and I highly recommend it to any dystopian lovers. I’d also recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adult or NA fiction that deals with internal conflict and a bit of mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Sexual content, Violence, and Gun violence

leahjanespeare's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Why even bother with the word dystopian these days? This book takes place in the near future. One tyrannical regime has collapsed, and another is rising to take its place, promising that, don’t worry, they’re the good guys. Poster Girl shows the inevitable fallout when citizens lack privacy from their government; unchecked power, and the allure of an ‘easy’ life with all information at the tips of our fingers - and yet the importance of questioning the cost of that information. It's a speculative thriller; straightforward, slowly unfolding. Old school, like a noir. We also have very complicated, morally grey characters, which I often think of as Roth's signature style. Sonya is liked by absolutely no one, not really even her fellow political prisoners. She plays dirty, still has long-time habits from living a life of surveillance; ultimately not a great person - and yet I was fascinated by her and how she chose to respond to situations in the new world she doesn't fit into but now 'chooses' to be a part of.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Child death, and Child abuse