Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He

47 reviews

aelis_'s review

emotional mysterious

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

nisha_27's review

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

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing, Animal cruelty, and Sexual content

hue's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

Nothing happened for most of the story, and when something did . . . eh. It was messy, repetitive yet underexplained. I thought it would be a story with a sister relationship at the center but it really wasn't. The strange, sudden romance, the poorly-written characters, and the nonsense plot made this a jarring, exhaustive read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Suicide, and Murder

thelonehowler's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

There’s a lot I can say about this book. However, I do not want to spoil it. It’s one of those things you need to experience for yourself.

Like many others, I expected this book to be two sisters separated and searching for each other. The mystery within this book was insane and I loved every bit of it. With all these plot twists I wasn’t expecting, I was completely drawn into the story trying to solve the mystery as it unfolded before me.

If you’re looking for a dystopian and mysterious story with a ton of unexpected twists and turns, I recommend giving this book a try.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

avacadosocks's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, and Violence

zailun's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

this is literally one of my favorites now pls im still sobbing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Suicide

Moderate: Violence and Death of parent

jamiejanae_6's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Grief, Confinement, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, Sexual content, Death of parent, Death, and Terminal illness

emily_journals's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad slow-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? Yes

3.0

I think a lot of the elements and pieces of this book were really well thought out and interesting, but in the end did not end up being executed as well as I initially hoped.

The world building was compelling where it existed, but a lot of the world was left to the reader to fill in the gaps because of the way the author wants to present the plot twist. The world building especially hindered the amount of exploration both the themes and characters could have. This book is also a very character driven book, but for being such a character driven and plot light book, the characters did not get enough development, especially for a lot of the very important side characters. The themes of this book feel very relevant and I enjoyed them, I don't think the rest of the elements, such as the character development and world building, were fleshed out enough to highlight and fully explore all of the themes in this book. 

Overall, I think there were a lot of the building blocks and general ideas to make a great book, but the execution and exploration of all the elements together did not do enough to make this book anything exceptional. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, and Classism

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Medical content, Abandonment, Gun violence, and Suicide

emsuiko's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Violence

biblioghoul's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Death and Classism

Minor: Death of parent and Vomit