Reviews tagging 'War'

Crave by Tracy Wolff

12 reviews

lamianoctalis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ich muss sagen, am Anfang hatte ich echt Probleme ins Buch reinzukommen. Ich weiß nicht, ob es an dem Buch oder mir lag, ich fand Grace echt zickig/nervig, aber nach einem erzwungenen Beiseitelegen und wieder aufnehmen, hat sich meine Wahrnehmung sehr verändert. Ich habe das Buch in Rekordtempo zuende gelesen und genossen. Immer wieder war ich von den Entwicklungen überrascht oder hab an meiner Einschätzung gezweifelt. Ein gelungener erster Band der Reihe. (Ich hab mir direkt Band 2&3 besorgt)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Blood, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Death, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

Minor: Racism, Sexual content, Torture, War, Hate crime, and Genocide

indyyxoxo's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Confinement, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: War and Vomit

thelittlestmermaid's review

mysterious tense

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: War

kenzie_simone456's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: War, Death, and Death of parent

becca_w_'s review

dark emotional funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Medical content, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Death, Grief, and Gun violence

Moderate: Car accident, War, and Vomit

Minor: Genocide and Panic attacks/disorders

maresuju's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Blood

Moderate: Death, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Minor: Xenophobia and War

lyneobsessions's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Je me suis ennuyée comme jamais. 
J'ai eu l'impression de lire une parodie de parodie de Twilight. Tellement de clichés réunis dans un même tome...
Et tant de niaiseries. J'ai levé les yeux au ciel, râlé ou soufflé un nombre incalculable de fois.
Certes ce sont des adolescents mais cela ne justifie pas à mes yeux cette tartine de mièvreries.
Sans compter certaines absurdités et le fait que l'héroine ne capte rien avant 300 pages alors que les autres personnages font des bourdes toutes les 5 pages.
Bref, je n'ai pas aimé et je ne lirais pas la suite !

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Car accident, Genocide, and War

bashsbooks's review

dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

2.5

I would probably not call this a "good" book, but it definitely has given me some serious entertainment & a lot to think about, including:

1. This author's fixation with being over-the-top tongue-in-cheek about the genre in which she is writing. I have over a dozen quotes noted down where she has the MC mention this is "just like a romance novel" or "just like a horror movie". The worst offender is when the vampire love interest LITERALLY gives the MC a copy of Twilight. I will say, it is funny but perhaps not in the way the author intended.
2. Dialogue is poorly-written, this is sometimes also very funny in an unintentional way.
3. There is no rhyme or reason to lore, Twilight lore is more internally consistent than this.
4. Going off of point #3, the outright fact that vampires are mammals in this universe and that born-vampires exist, but they cannot drink milk. Curious as to what baby vampires subsist on and how they get the mammal classification if their mothers don't feed them with milk.
5. I don't want to spoil it but the Plot Twist Reveal about the MC made me cry I laughed so hard. I would call it brave, groundbreaking even, but my friend told me not to.

I am compelled by "bad" art that is supremely interesting and I am having a lot of fun liveblogging this series to my friends, so I will be reading the rest of them... but I don't want to recommend them unless that's the kind of thing you're into.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Grief, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder, Cursing, Stalking, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: War and Vomit

thequeendomoffaerie's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

Amazing. This book reminded me why I love reading so much. I'm devouring the second book as I type this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, War, Kidnapping, Murder, and Death of parent

bookwormenthusiast's review

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

2.0

 I went into this book with such high hopes that I ended up forcing myself to finish it. The book started off pretty strong in that it read like a bad fanfiction, one that you know you shouldn't be too critical of, especially since you can't put it down and have to keep reading it, no matter how predictable it is. However, about halfway through, it all went downhill. I no longer had the feeling that I could read this book without thinking too critically, in fact, it ended up dragging so much that I had to take breaks when reading because I didn't care about what was happening with these characters, which is saying a lot considering the book takes place in just a few days. Overall, I thought this book was going to be a lot more than it was - which is my own fault. However, if you like good fanfiction give this one a try, I know I liked it at first. Also, yes, as low as my rating is, I will be finishing this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Violence

Minor: War