Reviews tagging 'War'

Morning Star by Pierce Brown

79 reviews

tcheschire's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring 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? Yes

3.75

On the whole I liked this one better than Golden Son, but the pretty consistent pop culture references really dragged it down, especially in contrast to the darker tone. Visceral descriptions of physical and psychological torture, then a scene or two later we get a literal Bye Felicia. Meh.

Cassius’s development really cemented him as a favorite, where before my opinion was neutral (leaning negative). I loved the Nakamura siblings as well, fantastic additions to the cast.

The audiobook performance knocks it out of the park, as always.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Torture, War, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery and Colonisation

blueberry0531's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

The author is so cruel to his characters 😭 A great and realistic wrap up to a fantastic series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Genocide, Slavery, Kidnapping, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Classism, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Body horror, and War

Moderate: Torture and Miscarriage

murrayscottferguson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Gore, Bullying, Cannibalism, Classism, Confinement, Racism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, War, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, and Death of parent

cc0906's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gore, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Child death, Murder, Medical trauma, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Confinement, Torture, Vomit, Violence, Bullying, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Blood

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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: Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Medical content, Body horror, Blood, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and War

Moderate: Alcohol and Fire/Fire injury

katiefronk's review against another edition

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

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Torture, Confinement, Death, Violence, Slavery, Suicide, Cursing, Physical abuse, Murder, and Blood

samuelbrown23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.75

This was truly amazing trilogy, it had made me want to keep going ch after ch. I only have a few things that had disappoint me in the book. I really do like all the characters really received their fair dues. The author did great job on showing the reaper lows in the beginning and bring him back up, Victra and Sevro truly make sense considering funny and charming their are. Like how at the end it made sense on why mustang was judging Darrow worth due to their secret son. The only complaints have is how the battle with Roque was bit confusing like felt it was simply dragging too long, the death of prison girl didn’t seem munch of worth due to reintroducing the character was done badly as I completely forgot about her and the moment with Darrow family reunion felt a bit bland like every other story you have read. I will still highly recommend for great Sci-Fi trilogy story and a lot memorable characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Violence

obtoosegoose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and War

Moderate: Suicide

cayleybp's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, and Suicide