Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Das Königreich aus Kupfer by A. S. Chakrabarty

108 reviews

laurareads87's review against another edition

5.0

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: Complicated

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Well, I didn't expect this, but I liked The Kingdom of Copper even more than I liked The City of Brass.  I feel like while the earlier book establishes the world, the second takes both character development and politics to a new level: more excitement, more tension, more complexity.  I'm so glad I'm reading this series now, when all three books have been released, so that I don't have to wait for Book 3.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, War, Injury/Injury detail

mxpringle's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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: Yes

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wow I’ve been reading too much contemporary romance that I forgot that high fantasy has themes and/or acts of genocide</>spoiler 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol

chelsaat's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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

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A tad too long, but the last 100 pages had me on the edge of my seat. So curious to see how this is all gonna wrap up.

I love Ali, my murderous little cinnamon roll with little head for political strategy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexism

gandalfsmom's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

tinybluepixel's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Emotional abuse, Rape, Terminal illness, Gaslighting

dealingwithdragons's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Alcohol

While Chakraborty's characters are djinn from fantasy tribes, the tribes they are from correspond to real world ethnic groups. The narrative is clearly against racism and xenophobia, but the depictions could potentially be triggering.

mjwhitlock18's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Second in a trilogy, and I didn’t like it quite as much as the first, but it was still very enjoyable! (I think it dragged just a bit too much at the beginning for me.) I liked how the political intrigue played out and you see the characters respond to their situations. Many characters, especially Nahri and Ali, are given real development. I like that none of the characters are perfect, sometimes morally grey, sometimes just stupid. I don’t always like how their choices, but I still find them believable.

Nahri’s choices still drive me crazy sometimes and WTF @Dara how could you make the same monumental mistake a second time. I love Ali’s passion but like damn sometimes someone just needs to put a hand over his mouth! Ghassan deserved worse. I still hope for the best for Jamshid and Muntadhir, but this hope might hurt me later… Maybe a hot take, but Ali deserves Nahri far more than Dara.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, War

Minor: Homophobia, Rape

hendrixpants's review against another edition

4.75

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: Violence

pvbobrien's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent

Moderate: Chronic illness, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol