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Lore by Alexandra Bracken

7 reviews

sunflower_tea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

It’s written in a personal she narrator.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Medical content, Body horror, Slavery, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Religious bigotry, Deadnaming, Suicide, Incest, Sexism, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Bullying, Cancer, Hate crime, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, and War

Moderate: Body shaming, Car accident, Colonisation, and Adult/minor relationship

eve_reads's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.0

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ The schematics of the bloodlines, family relations, and transfer of powers was so convoluted to me for such a large portion of the book. The chart provided helped a little bit but not entirely.

⁕ The plot is quest-based and driven more by physical action than character emotion and development. Consequently, the main heroes fell flat. 

⁕ My favorite scene involved one of the Gods talking about her experience as a women and one of the only remaining "old gods." It was a perspective that we don't usually get in modern day retellings of Greek mythology and one of the strongest moments of emotional vulnerability in the book. 

⁕ Yes, there were some plot twists. No, I did not see them coming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, and War

Moderate: Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

joricottone's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Medical trauma and Sexual assault

anitra2319's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Genocide, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual harassment

sweyra's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Torture, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Medical content, Kidnapping, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Chronic illness, Child death, Child abuse, Cancer, Bullying, and Blood

Minor: Vomit

meloanpmc's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

3.5

This story is essentially The Hunger Games meets Percy Jackson meets Scythe. It’s one of those books that you can’t put down, but once you finish it, you realize that it wasn’t that great. The suspense keeps you reading and helps you forget a lot of the inconsistencies, but after the (subpar) resolution, you’re left wondering why you were so enthralled. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

beersbooksandbooos's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.5

 I loved this book and I couldn’t stop reading. Though the start was a little slow but once it got going it didn’t stop. At first I didn’t think I would like Lore but as the book went on I fell in love with her. She wasn’t like the typical young adult heroine where they are all about them. She listened to her friends and didn’t really do that much stupid stuff. Though I do have to say Miles and Van were my two favorite characters. Alexandra Bracken wrote the perfect blend of the old Greek myth with a modern day setting. Her writing was easy to follow and get into. I will be recommending this to all my friends. Thank you Netgalley and Hyperion for letting read and review this book. 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, and Violence