Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

31 reviews

linneak's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

tiana_king's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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: Complicated

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There was so much treachery in this book. Despite not being in a hunger games situation, it still had plenty of action. We finally find out who Ares is! The revolution is in full swing and I’m apprehensive of where it will go from here because that ending was a dozy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Genocide, Slavery

Minor: Colonisation

haley49's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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…I’m traumatized with that ending. What

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, War

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Rape, Cannibalism

praaliine's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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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where do i even start? golden son was really something, only one other book (series) has ever put me through an emotional wringer like this. every little detail in this book was worth paying attention to because pierce brown leaves no stone unturned. this was in no way a senseless science fiction, it really explored the tragedy of human nature and the relationships developed in this book were the most profound and complex i’ve ever read. there’s a big cast of characters and not one was irrelevant, pierce brown breathed so much life into the supporting characters that i cried at their pain.

i really love how Darrow, as hot headed as he was (rightfully so), remained self aware through it all, he’s broken, confused, (stupid)ly brave and gets ahead of himself way too much, yet he realizes this and isn’t afraid to say so.

I could go on all day about every single character, but i’ll stop here. it took me longer than i would have liked to finish the book, but that’s on me because i’m pushing through a slump. golden son was epic, i’ll always recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Vomit, Medical trauma

Minor: Alcohol

luxxltyd's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Child death, Sexual content

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Excrement, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War

joshoonet's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous tense fast-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: Yes

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• I had a bit if a hard time getting into this book, mostly because the feeling of having to read another ~1200 pages to finish the series was kind of daunting
• But then I ended up finishing the majority of the book in one day, so it was absolutely captivating!
• Almost as good as the first one, but of course higher stakes and more complicated politics
• Lost focus a bit during the big fighting bits
• Love how nothing is ever quite how it seems, everyone is scheming all the time
• Starting the third book immediately!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Genocide, Torture, Excrement

War and pretty much all the violent and gory stuff:

well, there's war breaking out. A shit ton of people die in quick or gruesome ways, sometimes it's described in detail, sometimes not.

Vomit:

a couple of times someone has to vomit after experiencing a lot of physical turbulence aka being jiggled around. It's gross, but not overly graphic.

Kidnapping:

a child is getting kidnapped by the main characters for a short amount of time. It doesn't get harmed and doesn't seem terribly disturbed by the while thing.

cami_stokes3859's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Warfare, increased violence, character development, science fiction

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

st_ender's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I am amazed that so many things were put into this book. Like so many. Just rapid fire events. I mean I did have to go back to plot section of wiki to understand some parts and there being multiple settings across the solar system AND multiple new characters AND plot twists and betrayals AND the main character changing his goals like 10 times? It's like the author tried to avoid the sequel slump so much he just put his entire brain into making every sentence engaging and if you miss that one sentence you are done.
I did have fun tho, it was tense and it made me gasp and go wait whaaat out loud so I guess the aim was achieved. It was also very different than the first one in about everything but also less ender-y (don't worry the space school takes like a chapter) so I'm excited for the next one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Slavery, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Trafficking

grets_reads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Slavery, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Classism

Minor: Rape, Torture, Vomit, Pregnancy, Alcohol