Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

122 reviews

danivm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

briannamwod's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

A solid 4.25 for me. Absolutely LOVED the beginning and I was truly enthralled. I found the remaining 2/3 of the book to drag on and didn’t capture my attention as much as I had hoped. I’m looking forward to more immersion into Gold society which I hope to see in the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Rape, and War

danaslitlist's review against another edition

medium-paced

I retract my entire review because apparently Brown only supports decolonization and rebellion and the oppressed when it comes to fiction but supports the genocide of Palestinians through the narrative of “self defensive” despite the fact that Israel has dropped over 12,000+ bombs on Gaza in the span of 18 days (killing over 6,000 civilians as of October 25, 2023) which has the same fire power as the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima.

Support of rebellion, support of the oppressed when it only applies to fiction is negligent and transparent. 

Edit: He also quoted the actual war criminal Henry Kissinger and said: “for those hating on Kissinger, LOL, read everything. Especially if it’s your enemies textbook. Knowledge kills evil. Stay in your own echo chamber and you will only ever know your opinion.” So he can go fuck himself

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Slavery, Xenophobia, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent

marla_arguelles's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and War

hapalyn'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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Excrement, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism and Sexual assault

5 stars. If you can push through the first 70 pages, you're honestly set. I was definitely like... "this is the book everyone's raving about...?" until I hit around that mark and everything finally unfolded. This is for people who like: -Fast plots -LOTS of tension (lots of "waiting for the other shoe to drop") -Dystopian & Scifi (however, I am NOT a scifi fan, and I really really enjoyed this) -Underdog MC -The Hunger Games (specifically the actual hunger games.... it's not going to be 100% exact, but I can see the correlation. Keep your expectations realistic!) This is NOT for: -Anyone who is sensitive to blood, death, injuries, all the squeamish things. -Anyone who is heavily triggered by sexual assault and rape (this book is pretty blunt with those terms and doesn't specifically detail rape scenes, but it's implied and acknowledged). With that all being said, what I enjoyed most was the tension, the quickness of the plot (I didn't find myself bored waiting for 50 pages of world building after every single action scene), the cleverness of the fights, the characters were all very interesting to me, and a lot more. I think this book is obviously good, and I have high expectations that the rest of the series will be way better. Because it's the first book in the series, it's easy to look past some of the pacing at the start. 1000% will be reading the other books in this series!

n0elle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sttormy's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Edit: as I sit with the content longer, the misogyny really bugs me and isn’t necessary at all… and the rape/sexual assault isn’t needed either? 
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Overall, REALLY loved this book. Only one complaint… using being a girl as an insult is unnecessary.

There is a theme of looking down on women/ using “being a girl” as a negative. In such a futuristic, heightened society, this isn’t necessary and literally adds nothing… the Golds are all supposed to be equal, but calling someone a girl is a negative. Also, with the Golds being at the top of society, gender binary shouldn’t matter?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, War, and Classism

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture

Minor: Animal death

Lots of talk of rape/sexual assault that occurs

isotope_s's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

So Protestant. Knock off Hunger Games. The book is boring until you get to the games. The games were interesting to read. It wants to say something about justice and race and class. But it just doesn’t—like I said, knock off hunger games. Idk if I’m just tired of rebellion books or what. Also I can’t stand the MC. So annoying, condescending, and full of himself. Also there was literally nothing about this that was sf besides the setting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Cannibalism

lavenderviolin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Very excited, cool premise. the character development and the relationships/interactions between all the different characters what what really made this book interesting to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

brennapatt's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail