Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

4 reviews

da3m0nic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Excrement, Incest, and Infidelity

reggiethebird's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

"Good fiction. Gooooooood fiction." - BDG

Really good gallows humor, and all of the plot threads braid together in a way that makes sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Blood, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and War

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

The ending for this book was much more interesting than in the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Torture, and Vomit

srm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I had a lot of high hopes for this book, and several of them were met, but others were less so. What I've always liked best about Abercrombie is how he writes characters, and there were a handful of moments that I felt like they took a backseat for other purposes. Not a lot, but more than I'm used to in the Fist Law books. Still, excitement is high for the third and final book of the trilogy. Please more King Jappo!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Torture, Gore, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Cursing

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Homophobia

Minor: Incest