Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

11 reviews

readingdragon28's review against another edition

Too much detail on the gore of what happened with the "madness" from the *spoiler alert* nasty engineered insects.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Death, and Blood

chronicacademia's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Death, Child death, and Self harm

Moderate: Body horror, Animal death, Classism, Blood, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Drug use, and Violence

oh_roudha_reads's review

dark emotional informative mysterious tense slow-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

5.0

This book was a wonderful read although it was a bit slow at first I found that I finished it in three days. It’s truly such a gut wrenching book and trust me when I say your jaw will drop physically many, many times. I can’t wait to read the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Child death, Colonisation, Cursing, and Transphobia

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Violence, Body shaming, Car accident, and Grief

persikan_05's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, Blood, Body horror, Alcohol, Body shaming, Death of parent, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Vomit, Death, Drug use, and Fatphobia

packedjam's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

this book is insane and right up my alley. it’s like if you infused romeo and juliet with the adventurous books i read in my youth and set it in 1920s shanghai. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Gore, Murder, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Classism, Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, Genocide, Alcohol, Trafficking, and Xenophobia

Minor: Drug abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Transphobia, and War

grace_of_avi's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Gun violence, and Genocide

Moderate: Colonisation and Misogyny

Minor: Sexism, Racism, and Classism

gamora_zen1's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Child death, Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gore, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, and War

zoepagereader's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book was wack. I mean, putting 1920’s China with the Opium Wars, gangster blood feuds, a Romeo and Juliet retelling, and a murder lice monster all in one book is just wack. I was very confused most of the time and greatly disappointed at the cop out that was the actual murderer. The characters confused me as to how they could go from “woo-hoo unnecessary murder” to “oh no I have caused so much blood to be shed” in like 2 pages. Also everything in the last ten pages confused the heck out of me. And I can’t believe I just wrote all of this without mentioning how gross the descriptions of the blood and the murder lice and the gore. This was not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Self harm, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Alcohol

aep215's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

Graphic: Violence, Genocide, and Blood

molly_rose's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Blood, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Classism, Colonisation, and Misogyny