Reviews tagging 'Death'

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

24 reviews

serendipity421's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Murder, Slavery, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

sienna1508's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Grief, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Child death, Excrement, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

theverysleepygirl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

Thoughts on this one are long and complicated. I’ll get to writing a review eventually.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Death

aseel_reads's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

this had so much potential and it just flopped so bad. the magic system was quite vague and i don't see the point of its addition. the story was quite predictable as well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Vomit, Violence, Torture, and Stalking

lisa_m's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Don't get me wrong, this was a good book. I might even say it was a great one but it was just nothing special. I really wish I would have enjoyed it more. This could have been a five star read but something was missing. I liked the writing, loved the characters, loved the plot and magic system. My only real concern was that the romance felt rushed and underdeveloped. Since the rest was good I don't really mind though.

I think the reason I didn't like it as much as I could have is how much YA Fantasy I have already read. At some point it just starts to become repetitive. I really hope that is not true though because I love YA Fantasy. :( If I read this book 2 years ago I would have probably liked it more.

Another concern I had was that certain serious topics where discussed quite graphically which I don't like and which always makes me uncomfortable. It was used to establish Yelenas character and her past trauma but still I wished it had been less graphic.

Nonetheless I will definitely be reading the following books of the series. I also hope Ari and Janco will be in the next booka as well since they were my favourite characters. (Btw. I thought their friendship could have been established better. They basically went from not knowing Yelena to wanting to die for her which felt very rushed.) I guess I just wished it was longer but since it is the first book of a series that's not really a big issue.

Edit: One more thing. I didn't expect the romance to be Between thlse two people for two reasons. 1. it was underdeveloped and 2. he is 33 and she is 19!! I didn't even realise it that much while reading the book but at first I did think he was going to be a sort of mentor/father figure. When they started hinting at a romance I aged him down in my mind but now that I finished the book I looked it up and he really is 33! Idk what to think about that tbh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Deadnaming, Death, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

racheldiep's review

adventurous dark medium-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? No

5.0

Anyone who's a fan of The Hunger Games will love (which is...everyone? does anyone not like THG??). I saw so many parallels between Yelena and Katniss Everdeen (and Poison Study was actually published first!) I could even recommend this book to non-fans of the fantasy genre because the world building gets straight to the point, it's not at a snail's pace like a lot of other fantasies. The romance is also p intriguing but doesn't detract from the main events of the novel. Bonus points for the main girl casually being a WOC (even though you can't tell from the cover lol), the casual trans rep, and deftly capturing how a survivor of abuse processes trauma.

Also I thought this book would be YA, but it's definitely new adult/adult fantasy (TWs for sexual assault, abuse). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Death, and Murder

chuckielittle's review

adventurous medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

booksoflore's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

So I read this book back in 2012 (!!!) and gave it 5 stars. Now that I am almost twice as old as I was when I first read this book, imma give it a smooth 4.25. honestly I still really love this book but

HOLY SHIT WAS THERE REALLY A WHOLE TRANS NARRATIVE SIDEPLOT THAT I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT AS A KID. the library really did turn me gay, I’m so shook

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Violence, Vomit, Blood, and War

Moderate: Trafficking, Sexual violence, Dysphoria, and Sexual assault

Minor: Transphobia

soniajoy98's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

mediocre_omen's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and War

Minor: Addiction