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stwriter92's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Murder and Death
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Abandonment, and Child death
Minor: Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Kidnapping
a_cera_t0ps's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
The book looked at the inherent fault in the concept of a utopia: to be flawed is to be human. To live is to one day die. To love is to risk losing.
In a perfect world, humanity ends up desensitized and stagnant. There are no big emotions, no real wants, and no true progress. Life is boring. The only thing that's still human, ironically, is found in the most horrific, inhumane act someone could commit. Humanity barely lives, and the rest just live to die. To kill. To "glean," as a shiny, perfect, desensitized world would prefer to call it.
The book has a refreshing take on the future. It believes that, if we were to cure death before fighting our way into space, we would never leave. We would grow comfortable in safety, and seek vanquish any attempts to jeopardize it. It was interesting, and I felt it was realistic.
Neal Shusterman shows just how bad humanity is. True humanity leads to the worst of the worst worming their way into power every time. True humanity values themselves over morality. True humanity is ignorant and judgemental. True humanity, simply put, is dangerous. Yet, I we strip mankind of its sin, we are left with nothing worthwhile.
The plot is well connected. It wraps enough of the story up to have a clear, clean plot while still establishing conflict to be dealt with in the following books.
The characters well fleshed out nicely. The ones that were meant to be likeable were wonderful. The antagonists were scary. If not in a thriller/horror way, in a philosophical way. You didn't want them to win, but the threat of their success was just too real. Each response to the conflicts were clever. Nothing was too predictable to be enjoyable or too convoluted to be good storytelling.
The Shustermans are amazing, as always <3
Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death, Murder, and Suicide
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Bullying, Gun violence, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
reka111's review against another edition
- 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
My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.
I started this book thinking I wouldn't like it anyway, but look at me, I'm here and I love it. There was simply a moment - maybe because of the music playing in my ears - but something clicked and I decided it would be 5 stars, it would be all and in the end I didn't regret it.
Cintra grew very close to my heart — as did Rowan — and it just hurts so much that she had to go through so much to get the peace of mind she deserved. I also loved Madam Curie, honestly, she had a calm personality who respected death and did not use it for punishment.
Their relationship with Rowan was complicated to say the least, but in the end they found each other back, even when everything was doomed to deteriorate. They are not average, so much has to be left and this is not accompanied by ordinary love.
The plot was difficult to start at the beginning because it was necessary to absorb and understand a new world structure, but in the end it sucked me in, the idea itself is simply phenomenal and even believable. The pace may be a bit slow, but maybe it just seemed like it was a long book. I loved it anyway, it was a really creative and exciting read, and I can't wait to continue.
Graphic: Suicide, Death, Murder, Child death, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Gore, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Emotional abuse
rachel_anne_krauz95's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Grief, Murder, Torture, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Blood
jadejade's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
I didn't mind following our two main teenaged characters but they aren't interesting enough alone to make me want to follow their story. However, I found the different philosophies of the different Scythes, and the general population's response to a world where death is not inevitable, to be interesting enough that I think I will continue the series.
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Fatphobia, Torture, Medical content, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, and Grief
hales_1243's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Gaslighting, Racism, Child death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Body horror, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Fatphobia
Minor: Vomit and Alcohol
adrienanthony's review against another edition
- 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: Blood, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Child abuse, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Suicide, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, and Self harm
Moderate: Police brutality and Medical content
Minor: Torture and Genocide
giulianalb99's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
<i>Los mandamientos de los segadores:
1. Matarás.
2. Matarás sin prejuicios, sesgos ni premeditación.
3. Concederás un año de inmunidad a los seres queridos de aquellos que acepten tu llegada y a todo aquel que consideres digno de ello.
4. Matarás a los seres queridos de aquellos que se resistan.
5. Servirás a la humanidad durante el resto de tus días y tu familia recibirá la inmunidad como recompensa durante toda tu vida.
6. Llevarás una vida ejemplar, tanto de palabra como de obra, y escribirás un diario en el que dejarás constancia de lo acontecido cada día.
7. No matarás a ningún segador, salvo a ti mismo.
8. No tendrás más posesiones terrenales que tu túnica, tu anillo y tu diario.
9. No tomarás cónyuge ni engendrarás.
10. No acatarás más leyes que estas.</i>
Este libro me ha gustado bastante. Aunque se publicó hace un tiempo y todo el mundo lo ha leído, yo siempre llego tarde y decidí leerlo antes de acabar el mes de mayo.
La verdad es que sabía que era una distopía pero no me esperaba para nada que fuera así. Todo el tema del Nimbo tampoco me ha parecido una locura considerando los tiempos que vivimos de que la tecnología está completamente transformando el mundo cada día más y más, y no me sorprendería para nada que llegase a pasar lo ocurrido en el libro. Entendiendo el punto de los segadores e incluso puedo llegar a comprender su oficio y lo necesario que es. En esta “utopía” gobernada por el Nimbo aparecen, cómo no, problemas que ellos mismos van a tener que enfrentar: no sólo en cuanto a cribar, sino también entre los segadores.
El libro empieza con una de las protagonistas, Citra, recibiendo al que más tarde sería su mentor, el segador Faraday, en su casa. Después conocemos a Rowan, el otro protagonista, que conoce a Faraday después de que un compañero suyo de clase sea elegido para la criba y decida quedarse con él durante el proceso, haciéndose así el segundo novicio elegido por Faraday. Ambos protagonistas me han encantado, son los dos bastante diferentes el uno del otro: Citra es una chica decidida, fuerte, capaz de cualquier cosa, y nunca se rinde; Rowan es apodado “el lechuga” porque como él dice, siempre es al que menos le hacen caso la gente, el que no importa, el que sobra, pero su evolución como personaje es una brutalidad y la verdad es que le amo. Aunque sea bastante leve, el autor introduce un pequeño romance (o afecto sería mejor) entre ambos y tengo bastante ganas de leer los siguientes para ver cómo evoluciona. Hay otros personajes (aunque aparecen nombrados los familiares de cada uno, no salen lo suficiente para poder dar una opinión concreta de cada uno), básicamente otros segadores, que tienen una ética moral bastante diferente de cada uno y está muy bien reflejado cómo impactan sus actos en el libro.
La verdad es que me ha encantado y la idea del libro me parece bestial, pero sí que es verdad que no deja de ser una introducción a todo el mundo de esta trilogía, y se nota que el segundo libro viene fuerte porque el final te deja con muchísimas ganas de seguir leyendo sin parar. En algunas ocasiones se me ha hecho un poco lento, pero es comprensible teniendo en cuenta que este tomo es básicamente cómo aprenden los protagonistas el arte de ser segador/de cribar. Le doy un 4,5 porque sé que el segundo libro me va a encantar y en este hay cosas que no me han acabado de convencer (aunque sean poquísimas, como ya he dicho).
Graphic: Gaslighting, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Genocide, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Self harm
Minor: Grief, Torture, Abandonment, and Bullying
fox2800's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Death, Suicide, and Child death
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, Xenophobia, Child death, Suicide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, and Murder
bibliofanatic's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Death, Gun violence, Gore, and Blood
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Suicide