Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

18 reviews

natyourusual_'s review

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

Once you reach the actual heist happening and the first major problem in the Ice Palace, it becomes a fun read. Unfortunately, that takes over 280 pages which is roughly 2/3 of the whole book. I should not have to slog through that much for it to get good. Plus, certain characters got hyper-speed development at the end despite having enough page time to get better slowly. Other characters got so little page time of substance that I barely knew who they were until the end. It just felt a little sloppy imo. All of the characters should have been aged up as well. I hated being reminded that they’re literal children because that did not make any sense for their character arcs/backgrounds and took me out of the story. Explanation of my biggest gripe in the spoiler section (and it has some pretty big spoilers):

Okay so I have one major gripe with this book and it’s the Nina/Matthias romance. He is a former witch hunter and she’s Grisha. The horrendous things we see from him and his ilk throughout the story are absolutely disgusting. He’s essentially former gestapo yet we’re supposed to be rooting for him to get with someone he was going to torture and murder on several occasions. Even after they’re into each other and they see the burnt corpses of her people, he has the audacity to say to her “have you ever considered that you were never meant to exist?” Like, I get that he “grows” and realizes that maybe everything he was taught was propaganda and wrong, but he also pulls the “killing Hitler means you’re as bad as him” argument when he stops Nina from killing his genocidal mentor. I just think a lot of that arc was not good and I hated it. Them being friends and him growing and then helping her stop more of her people being murdered by helping her end (read: kill) the main cause of that violence would have been a better arc. No romance, though, ever. I cannot stand this type of romance. </spoiler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Cursing, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Slavery, and Ableism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mozimmerm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

I love this book so much. I read it for the first time in January and already had to do a re-read. Extraordinary characters, exhilarating plot, slowburn romance. So so good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Cursing, Gun violence, Murder, Genocide, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Abandonment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

josiee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Genocide, Miscarriage, Addiction, Dementia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Outing, Rape, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Murder, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Torture, Trafficking, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, and Violence

shelbyrodger's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Death, Kidnapping, Violence, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Gun violence, Slavery, and Trafficking

johns6ka's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Rape, War, Police brutality, Racism, Child abuse, Animal death, Confinement, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Classism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Pedophilia

e_papankova_333's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Deportation, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Slavery, Ableism, Abandonment, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Genocide, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Violence

katies_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Slavery, and Trafficking

Minor: Genocide and Pandemic/Epidemic

shadereads's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

Graphic: Trafficking, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Slavery, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Torture