Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

14 reviews

eowyn_of_anniera's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Gore

a characters get cuddly and a little weird, but not horrible

guccishoestrings's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Easily the best book in the series and a big step up from the first book. The world grows much bigger and the mystery of why the world is the way it is makes for an intriguing and tense story. The big twist at the end was weird and still is weird to me to this day but I would not say it was bad.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Body horror, Child death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Confinement, and Death

bella_01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed reading this book, I actually preferred it to the first book in the series. The plot was super interesting and unpredictable, so I got invested easily. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Child death

Minor: Murder, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

gentle_garbage_baby's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

It's a fine read - not the best thing I've ever read but I am interested in where the story goes after this point. The last book will really determine whether I like the series or not because the Trials have been quite convoluted for the characters so far and if there's a stupid reason behind why I'm going to be disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

isabella_gautreauuu's review

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Emotional rollercoaster, tense, manipulative qualities in characters and the book itself, makes you rethink everything you once knew about the first book, gives major trust issues, ending of the book is hard to read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Death

Minor: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

_ren's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Blood, Gore, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Gun violence and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Forced institutionalization

summerem's review

adventurous funny mysterious 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? No

3.5

I enjoyed this sequel to the Maze Runner, but not more than the first book itself. This book feels like a bridge between the first book and (hopefully) the resolutions in the third book, in a bit of an unnecessary way. The way that it was written and the events in this book feel like it either should have been fleshed out more with less repetitive situations and narrations, and more details about what the heck is actually going on in the world- or should have been combined with the third book (granted, I have not read the third book yet, but I'm assuming we find out more about all the questions we have there). 
The narrative is a bit repetitive, with Thomas having the same thought processes more than once. 
I can definitely feel that Thomas is a teenager with the way his feelings change every five minutes about something. I'm not sure if that's on purpose or a result of the writing style, but I enjoyed this book nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

Minor: Murder

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Vomit

anna_grace_lowrey's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, and Body horror

psliz's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.25

head-to-head competition with high stakes and loyalties tested! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Body horror and Kidnapping