Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

24 reviews

lady_bountiful's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Death, Blood, and Violence

paperbutsingular's review

adventurous emotional sad tense 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

I loved the characters and the theme. So unique. So well written.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Physical abuse and Gun violence

smellerbee93's review

adventurous fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Gun violence

trix_lyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

👹👹👹👹👹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

midsummerbri's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual violence

ashtonjamesdean's review

adventurous funny slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Death

Minor: Rape

dimcmill's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

Fun! I love a well written Western - add some Queer attraction and pure fun!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, and Sexual violence

jenabest's review

adventurous fast-paced

4.0

"[...] did you forget what you are?" 
"And what's that?"
"A rather pretty whore in a rather nice whorehouse"

Lucky Red is a rare one, indeed. I'm not much for westerns, but this was fun. Taking the sporting women and their brothel (the regularly featured backdrops for many a western) and putting them center stage was great. Come find yourself in league with these so-called fallen women for a fresh take on a gunslinging adventure.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Gun violence

ka_cam's review

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A fun and chaotic sapphic western largely based around a woman-run brothel. In this tale it’s the cowboys who are flat, brief characters and the women who have adventurous and romantically messy lives. Not a very political read, but a fun one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.25

 Lucky Red is a female centred Western with wonderful queer representation. Bridget Shaughnessy’s mother dies giving birth to her, while a snake bite claims the life of her father when she is sixteen, leaving her homeless, penniless and totally alone in the wilderness. After making her way across the prairie she arrives in Dodge City and is taken in by the female owner of a brothel. Bridget doesn’t mind the work (no demure, puritanical reservations from her) but comes to suspect that her personal preference is for other women, something confirmed when Spartan Lee, a female gunslinger arrives in town. Bridget is a great no-nonsense, practical character, one who certainly has her flaws and blind spots, which unfortunately cause trouble for her and many of those she comes to care about. Yet, she makes a fabulous heroine and I found myself wanting to cheer for her at certain parts of the novel. The plot itself has got some interesting twists and turns and the author clearly had fun playing with some common Western tropes. The writing felt fresh - no tired done-to-death metaphors to be found. The setting and characters all came vividly to life, in fact everything felt effortlessly cinematic. This was a rollicking good read with an ending that left a smile on my face. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Grief