Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

9 reviews

shadowspinner's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Minor: Animal death and Kidnapping

ilariasbizzera's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Kidnapping, Violence, Pedophilia, and Gun violence

r3ader's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Great continuation of the first book. The plot was amazing and gripping. 
The plottwist at the end was amazing and (at least I) did not see it coming! 
I would definitely recommend every fan of the first book to read the second, too!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Medical content, War, and Confinement

Minor: Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Gore, Torture, Cannibalism, Addiction, Child death, Excrement, and Genocide

eleanor_gravestock's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Great book with a thoroughly enveloping world. The prose is well written, with a great plot,  nicely rounded and developed characters. 
The very premise of these books is fantastical and wonderfully imaginative, I highly recommend the whole series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

Minor: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, War, and Misogyny

The spoiler tags make the book look way worse than it actually is, this book is fine for teens just maybe not ten year olds.

yrlaevelyn's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Kidnapping, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, War, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gun violence, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

the_books_music_life's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I love these books so much. I honestly don't have anything bad to say about them, the only thing I can think of as a critique is how long the chapters are. That's it.

The new characters we meet in this book add depth to the story, as we learn more about the peculiar world and the trouble it's facing. 

Jacob has a tough choice to make in this book and the way Ransom Riggs went about it was realistic and felt right for Jacob.

The two twists in the book, I had no clue they were coming.

Overall I absolutely adore these books and the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Murder

Bombings, World war II,

blewballoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This felt like such a downer, and made me unsure about continuing the series when I checked how long the series actually was. I rated it highly because I do think that if I were in middle school this would have been my jam. It was nice to learn about more Peculiar abilities, creatures, and lore.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Sexual harassment, Kidnapping, Death, Animal death, and Gun violence

wynterwonderland's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Grief, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War

alisazhup's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I'm not going to do a review for this one. All I can say is: I SAW THAT ENDING COMING! Did anyone else? I guessed it maybe halfway through the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Torture

Minor: Cannibalism, Drug use, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders