Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Legend by Marie Lu

6 reviews

rebeccaisabelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I love the story line and the plot twists. I wanted to read more and more so that I could find out what happened which resulting made me finish the whole book in 2 days. Whilst reading the first parts of the book, I thought, "this would make a good movie, I'd watch that movie" and then I changed my mind when I read further on because I realised that

John was killed and in a very gruesome way too. If I saw that in theaters I think I would feel pretty disturbed and sad about the loss

. The characters are so young. The kind of things that they are doing at that age seems unrealistic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, War, Chronic illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cultural appropriation, Death, Body horror, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Violence, Genocide, Gun violence, Grief, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, and Torture

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, and Abandonment

my3bb8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Medical trauma, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Death, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Torture, Murder, Body horror, Drug use, Medical content, Death of parent, Classism, Terminal illness, and Physical abuse

psnchz's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Classism, Police brutality, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Violence, and Torture

haley49's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

I loved everything about this book from the pacing to the characters to the plot. The only nitpicks I have are about gaps in world building and that emotional beats aren’t given the space to have lasting impact but I think that’s just the fast paced narrative. I can’t wait to read the next book(s).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Genocide, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Abandonment, Police brutality, Torture, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and War

auteaandtales's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

4.0

Another book I have had on my shelves for several months now not knowing it would be amazing. June is incredible, I loved it so much, it was just so good! The romance was a little weird, I felt the connection but I wish we could feel them bond more through the pages as it felt like they didn’t get much time to do that, it was a “love at first sight” situation, but everything else was incredible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Sexism, Torture, and Violence

roseamillerg's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad tense

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

2.0

can’t bring myself to rate this any higher. it was just, kinda, boring. also it felt unrealistic that Day and June were 15 y/o. I think 16 or 17 would have made more sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Kidnapping, and Suicidal thoughts