Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Quarta Asa by Rebecca Yarros

718 reviews

dereckhale08's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I’m a sucker for a dystopian, fuck corrupt government, the bad guys might be the good guys story and this one is no exception. Toss in some spice, some romance, some high fantasy and fucking dragons? I’m hooked. Holy moly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail

town_scar's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

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The first third was so aggravating I nearly gave up. I can understand both why people hate and love it. I fall somewhere in the middle. The author seemed to struggle with consistency and clarity. The only reason I could follow anything was because of the revised map and an illustration explaining squad structure that was in the second book. I could tell this first book was rushed to publication. While I was able to see most of the plot twists coming they were still enjoyable. Battle sequences were fun. Romance is a delight. The dude characters we spend the most time with are loveable. It's exactly middle of the road for me. Lot of issues but lots of good components as well. I'll be reading the sequel if only to satisfy by curiosity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent

sheritolley's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Physical abuse, Sexual content

Language warnings

beary_bookwormish's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

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Amazing book! The push pull between the two main characters was lovely to watch. 

The only thing I was not a fan of was all the death. I can understand losing a few characters, but we lost too many good people in the development of the story. But it's understandable, for the ruthlessness of the war college, but ouch. Ride or Die, for real!

Also, if you aren't prepared to have your heart in your throat the whole time your reading this,...don't read it! You will be holding your breath till the last sentence, then you'll almost pass out with that last sentence. Lol, at least I almost did and that's rare. I've been reading for way too long for authors to catch me off guard very often. It says a lot for her writing that she was able to do so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness

helopiccin's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

ninahuynh's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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What an ending! I like how the dragons have their own voices and aren’t just animals the humans use. I was onboard with Violet’s character for most of the book, but the parts where I wasn’t was when her resolve just didn’t fit her character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

jaxbaenre's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

taylorpettitt's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but did feel like the world building could’ve been a little more comprehensive. The characters were great and the slow burn was well written, though once the main characters got together everything went by very fast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Blood

gracemwigley's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, War

Moderate: Bullying