Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

104 reviews

ashlislibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, Sexual assault, Violence, Gun violence, and Murder

silentcode's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Child death, Gun violence, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Rape and Sexual content

capitan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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, Gun violence, Gore, Bullying, Car accident, Misogyny, Vomit, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Rape, Classism, and Murder

lady_bountiful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Rape

Minor: Kidnapping, Suicide, Vomit, Death of parent, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

nojai's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol

loudonuts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Bullying, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Violence

audreymck's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Gun violence, Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Violence

taaniasill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, and Gun violence

rainbow_narwhal's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

3.5

The book was great. I read the translation by Nathan Collins and some things must have been lost in translation. The writing seemed clunky at times. Some of the chapters introducing new characters only for them to meet their demise on the next page became formulaic and super repetitive. I did skip/skim over these chapters. 
The main characters were interesting to some extent. Noriko was unfortunately written not well. She was a damsel in distress for the most part. Quiet, shy, and submissive with a lack of identity and hardly any background story when so much was dedicated to fleshing out other characters. I was so disappointed that at

the end of the book when she escapes and we are told second hand about how she strongly held and pulled Shuya up onto the ship through the strong waters and she kills a bunch of soldiers.

her moments of bad-assery are told to us second hand. 

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Content Warnings

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

cozyscones's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, Gore, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual assault