Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi

48 reviews

milzy_23's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Blood, Murder, Confinement, Death, Torture, and Violence

skoloyian's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Torture, War, Death of parent, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Gun violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

lilareads5678's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Minor: Torture, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Grief

kajasversion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I felt as if this was a rather anticlimactic finish to such an amazing series. It didn’t feel as if the stakes were high and everything got resolved so fast. I get why Juliette thought of Anderson as attractive considering her past with Warner, but it’s still a bit weird. Especially how it’s just glossed over and never mentioned again. And her having her mind erased also had zero consequence at all and it pisses me off a bit ngl cuz all Warner had to was kiss her but like that’s not okay in terms of storytelling. Why even have that plot point of her not remembering for then to be resolved within 20 pages and with zero effort. Every villain died too easily and there wasn’t much of a fight at all, and that’s partly cuz none of the main characters ever die so I never got the feeling of the world ending. The book also never states how they took back control, how they were ruling the world or anything, it just ends with Juliette crying over a dog. There is no real finish as to what the state of the world is and I found it a bit disappointing. The epilogue- don’t even I can’t believe they couldn’t even get one happy moment- THEIR WEDDING DAY without something (Kenji) ruining it like bro they’ve been through so much just let them be happy for once. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

aysha_blake's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Medical content, War, Kidnapping, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Dementia, Confinement, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cursing, Gore, and Gun violence

overduck's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense

• 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? No

4.0

It felt a little lazy/haphazard to immediately throw the characters directly back into the situation they quite literally just escaped. I also felt the resolution could have resulted in a lot more answered questions. Still, Warner was iconic in this book, and I will shamelessly admit I read it obsessively.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Cursing, Violence, Sexual content, Child abuse, Murder, and Gun violence

Minor: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Torture, and Body horror

najmanasir's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.25

Originally, I wanted to rate this 4 stars, but now I want to give it a 3-3.5 rating due to lack of action building. A few major scenes felt anti-climatic to me when I expected to read a whole battle scene. The first scene I expected more from was

Warner fighting Juliette and trying to get her back. It felt uncanny to read that Warner was fighting with Juliette, led her away to corner her, and then had a make-out session which was how he brought her back. The way he brought her back didn't seem fitting to me when I wanted to read a battle between them and Warner expressing his feelings for her to inspire a change in her mental state and bring various memories in and out of her mind that would lead to Juliette taking back her mind again.

This change in the scene would've highlighted how difficult it would be for Juliette to get her mind back, considering that her mind was wavering for only brief moments throughout the entire book.

Another moment that felt very anticlimactic was how easily

the Supreme Commanders were falling one by one. I understand that Juliette is meant to be an overpowered character, but there were moments where she was successfully subdued/contained for a few moments rendering her powerless. That said, there could have been a more prolonged battle between her and Max. Max's character is not as strong as Evie's, but he was still willing to fight/contain Juliette to continue with Operation Synthesis. The battle could have lasted longer if the weapons imbued with Adam's power had been utilized more or on a larger scale. The book emphasized the urgency to prevent Adam's ability from being weaponized since all of their powers would be rendered useless. But Max and the rest of the scientists had successfully weaponized Adam's power (and Anderson injected a vile of it in his own body) that it felt disappointing that we didn't get to read how those weapons would have been strategically used against Juliette. Subduing Juliette's powers for even a limited of time would have allowed the readers to understand a new side to her and watch her excel in hand-to-hand combat.

While I do think the weapon wasn't used as much throughout the book due to their plan becoming more faulty from the time constraints and stress; it still felt upsetting not to read a proper fight scene that would have enhanced Juliette's character and brains.

Overall, I still enjoyed the book but wished for more developed action scenes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

angy_01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Torture

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

If you asked me if I liked this book 300 pages in I would have said no. Honestly this book sucked. Boring and gross and depressing. But Mafi manages to once again make a full recovery in the end. I even cried. I hate to say it but the end was so sweet the whole gross Anderson thing seems less offensive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Abandonment, Drug use, War, Alcohol, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Slavery, Death of parent, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Genocide, Misogyny, Self harm, Death, Drug abuse, and Forced institutionalization

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gore, War, Medical content, Body horror, Death of parent, Blood, Torture, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement