Reviews with content warning for Violence - Blacktop Wasteland

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Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

91 reviews

natalieba's review

3.0

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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brittonmc1221's review

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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hazelgirl21's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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rliedtke's review

4.25

tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

If I liked crime novels I think this would easily be a 5 star read, I just think it’s not my genre. That being said I still enjoyed it and think overall it’s an excellent book. I loved the writing and the family issues going on along with everything. I listened with the audiobook for a lot of it (I’m weird and go back and forth) and I think it’s a great audiobook as well!

If you like crime/heist stuff I strongly recommend!!

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eegah's review

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

once in a while you'll read a book that is just 100% committed to its style and get drawn into it based on that. Blacktop Wasteland isn't really the type of book i normally pick up (i usually like books more along the lines of detective crime) but i couldn't put it down. i don't even care about cars!

good, gripping heist stuff in here, with a heaping of no-nonsense southern noir. the descriptions are crackling. need for speed indeed.

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jalex's review

3.0

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marrowe's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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akahn26's review

3.5

dark reflective 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

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horizonous's review

3.25

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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locdbooktician's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I loved the southern setting of this book. This book explores facing difficult decisions and idealizing people in the past. This book has many content warnings such as gang violence, racism, violence, childhood abandonment, loss of a parent, child gun violence. The MC is grappled with two parts of himself. He views himself as two different men because he spends so much time separating the different parts of himself, trouble has no choice but to follow him. I often had to stop reading this book because I bracing myself for unspeakable violence. I found the pace of this book to slow and wish it was a bit faster.

Overall, I like this book. I have many thoughts on how Kia, the MC wife felt about his dealings and the trauma he put on her family. It felt familiar and I felt anger because of it.

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