Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey

7 reviews

alsira98's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Torture

amberinpieces's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

mirireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

blewballoon's review

adventurous lighthearted tense 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? No

3.0

I liked the story well enough, but I wasn't a big fan of the writing. I would probably rate this a 4 if the writing didn't take me out of the story so often. There were a lot of repeated lines used for descriptions of what people were doing, to the point that it stood out, and the dialogue was often clunky. The humor didn't land for me, it didn't fit with the setting and was oddly placed sometimes. I would say that I recommend this to young teen/pre-teen girls who think boys are icky, but there a fair amount of violence and murder.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, and Fire/Fire injury

radler's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy and Fire/Fire injury

carolined314's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-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

3.75

Fierce ladies, based on a true story, with some real icky violence from men and retribution from the ladies

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement and Sexual content

foreverinastory's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

Ugh I loved this so much!!

Rep: Spanish-Peruvian sapphic female MC, biracial Dutch-Peruvian (indigenous) lesbian female MC, Spanish cishet male side character with gout who uses a walking aid, Spanish and Peruvian cast, mute Peruvian female side character who uses sign language. 

CWs: Alcohol consumption, blood, body horror, colonisation, cursing, death, grief, injury/injury detail, kidnapping, lesbophobia/lesbomisia, misogyny, murder/ritualistic murder, sexism, suicide, violence. Moderate: past death of parent(s), chronic illness, fire/explosion, forced institutionalization (at a convent), gun violence, pregnancy mention, religious bigotry, sexual content (not graphic). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Gun violence, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury