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Poster Girl by Veronica Roth

9 reviews

katenovah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Sexual content, Blood, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Child death, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Violence

prairieraven's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Murder, Physical abuse, Death, Bullying, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Classism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Police brutality, Abandonment, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Violence

abby271's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Child death, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

aggie24's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual content and Child death

annamorgan27's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Child death, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content

americandropout's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, Murder, and Confinement

Moderate: Classism, Alcoholism, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

ems_rxlibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Cursing and Child death

Minor: Sexual content

keepcalmblogon's review against another edition

mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Veronica Roth is an autobuy author for me, so when the chance to win a signed ARC of Poster Girl popped up from William Morrow Books, I took it! I cannot describe how excited I was when I found out I won (there was lots of dancing and screaming)! 

Poster Girl feels like Divergent all grown up. I don’t mean that in any kind of negative way, but it explores the sins of a child through her grown-up eyes in a dystopian world that exists after an uprising. So, if you’ve read Divergent and have since grown up (like myself), you’ll know what I mean if you read this. 

I found this story to be the perfect standalone and discovered a number of insightful kernels that I promptly page-marked. Despite outwardly dealing with problems only imaginable in our world, Poster Girl speaks to underlying universalities of the human experience. 

Poster Girl is absolutely five stars for me and I highly recommend it to any dystopian lovers. I’d also recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adult or NA fiction that deals with internal conflict and a bit of mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Sexual content, Violence, and Gun violence

leahjanespeare's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Why even bother with the word dystopian these days? This book takes place in the near future. One tyrannical regime has collapsed, and another is rising to take its place, promising that, don’t worry, they’re the good guys. Poster Girl shows the inevitable fallout when citizens lack privacy from their government; unchecked power, and the allure of an ‘easy’ life with all information at the tips of our fingers - and yet the importance of questioning the cost of that information. It's a speculative thriller; straightforward, slowly unfolding. Old school, like a noir. We also have very complicated, morally grey characters, which I often think of as Roth's signature style. Sonya is liked by absolutely no one, not really even her fellow political prisoners. She plays dirty, still has long-time habits from living a life of surveillance; ultimately not a great person - and yet I was fascinated by her and how she chose to respond to situations in the new world she doesn't fit into but now 'chooses' to be a part of.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Child death, and Child abuse