Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Le Royaume de Cuivre by S.A. Chakraborty

86 reviews

saracat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

4.25

While there are some characters I disliked but felt like I could understand their actions, there were others I wanted to slap very hard regularly for acting so irrationally and purely on emotion. The three main characters I continued to feel for, though not equally. There were two I definitely sympathized more with because it felt like they were making efforts and looking for how to do better. Though, trauma and having ideology put before a person from a young age cannot be any easy thing to change. 

There were a lot of twists in this. And I liked how sometimes one character’s perspective was purposely not gone back to regularly to keep the suspense for the reader about how all things were progressing. 

Chakraborty conveyed the complexity of emotions and relationships between people very well as things progressed in this book. And I’m very interested to see how things continue into the third book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Toxic relationship, Death, Genocide, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Minor: Slavery, Torture, Cursing, and Rape

mice_are_nice's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Torture, Violence, Death, Murder, Xenophobia, War, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent, Slavery, Alcohol, and Trafficking

Minor: Child death

rjwilde's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child death

readinginthegrey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

My brain has left my body after that ending. 
It was so good! All of the political messiness from the first book is in the second. 
I wasn't in love with any of the characters (except maybe Ali), but that's becaus they were all flawed individuals that were quite fleshed out, everyone's actions made sense. 
While it does start off a bit slow,  there were enough twists to keep you on your toes. 

Definitely wory a read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Dara's a dick

kikireads1232's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

5.0

My first five star of the year! This was amazing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Violence, War, and Child death

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

dreadspawn'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Blood, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Medical content, and Genocide

Moderate: Alcoholism, Slavery, Death of parent, and Child death

bessadams's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Child death, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Classism

lindsayorme's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

reading_while_fat's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

devilavo96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Child death