Reviews tagging 'War'

The Encounter by K.A. Applegate

8 reviews

booksthatburn's review

hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Murder, Dysphoria, Death, Violence, War, Animal death, Slavery, and Body horror

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Death of parent

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Animal death, War, Violence, Gun violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Grief, and Dysphoria

Minor: Death of parent and Child abuse

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Slavery, Suicide attempt, War, Colonisation, Animal death, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Death, Dysphoria, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Grief, Gore, Xenophobia, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

kaaaaaaaa's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Due to a mixture of nostalgia and understanding the average age of the books' audience, I'm trying to be pretty lenient on this reread. That being said, I cannot get over a) Tobias interrupting

a LIVE commercial for a car dealership, a television phenomenon I certainly don't remember from the '90s,

and b) Marco

throwing a baseball so accurately and with such force that it breaks a skylight

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Also, in case anyone is curious, the "Alpha" wolf thing, while believed true at the time of publication, is flawed science:
The 1947 paper that drew conclusions about wolf hierarchies was describing two wolf packs in captivity. The study specimens were unrelated animals who'd been brought together at a Swiss zoo, where they shared an enclosure measuring 2,153 square feet (200 square meters). 
Unlike their counterparts at the Swiss zoo, natural wolf packs mainly consist of genetic relatives. They also take up way more space, patrolling territories of 1,000 square miles (2,590 square kilometers) or larger.
And the term 'alpha' isn't really accurate when describing most of the leaders of wolf packs. Because the term implies that the wolves fought and competed strongly to get to the top of the pack. In actuality, the way they get there is by mating with a member of the opposite sex, producing a bunch of offspring which are the rest of the pack, and becoming the natural leaders that way. Just like with a pair of humans producing a family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, War, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Animal death, and Dysphoria

Minor: Death of parent, Confinement, and Abandonment

Tobias's legal guardians check up on him/with each other so little that they haven't noticed

he's been gone for over a month. And Tobias is unsure if they will ever notice his absence.

phillyhufflepunk's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Mental illness, Animal death, Body horror, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and War

Minor: Gore and Grief

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Animal death, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty

kstericker's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Murder, War, and Suicidal thoughts

dosxhime's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

3.75

I have to say that the Animorphs series goes dark and hard and it really showed in this book. We got attempted s*icide atte*mpts, we got war, child soldiers, conflicting moralities. It was geniunely jarring to read Tobias' thought process and now I understand his thought processes. The scenes with Tobias' human and hawk minds conflicting was so heartbreaking and dear God, this boy needs a break. The consequences of morphing was thorougly explored over the course of the series with its body horror and mind-alternations. 

Man, when Marco said that he wanted to quit the Animorphs, I felt that in my bones. I would have quit on Day 1 lmao 

3.9 / 5 C+ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide attempt, and War