Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan

46 reviews

victoriousbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

This book does is not a victim of the second book slump. While there is a clear plot that it’s following, there is still a bunch going on and we learn so much about the core characters in this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, and War

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Alcohol

gattolinos_nerdy_nook's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

I think I prefer the first book more than this one. Book two does a lot of setting up for the final book and introduces a lot of conflict between characters.
With up the set up there are also a lot of character development. I thought the development was good and needed in fleshing out some of the characters. With all the character development it did feel like the action scenes lacked in comparison.

All in all I really liked the book and want to finish the series soon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

jessi21's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, War, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault and Slavery

lvjysunday's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

I had a good time with this book, and especially enjoyed the new characters introduced. The book fell flat one some parts but still offered a fun read. 

hiro's death broke me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Murder and Alcohol

Minor: Self harm and Sexual content

knee1230's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-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? Yes

4.5

Liked this book way more than the first. The writing is great and I love that the battle scenes are true battle scenes and aren’t just skimmed over. I like how complicated the characters are and how even the most lovable characters we find out dark decisions or twists about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

kas_the_crow19's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, Murder, and Sexual violence

brigid_reads_romance's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Violence, War, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Pedophilia

dododenise's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

This book suffers of severe middle book syndrome. It drags on, the plot being in that awkward place between the start and the resolution. I had to push myself through this book, hoping for better to come. But the plot pretty much kept its pace, making that part of the book very monotonous. The plot was also incredibly predictable. So predictable, that I didn’t think it would take this obvious of a route. But it did. I’m really hoping the third and last book in the trilogy does better.

But next to the plot points, this book was about recovery of trauma. And I think the book handled that well. We see how different characters handle it all in their own ways. When it comes to character development, the series needed this middle part. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, War, Death, Blood, Violence, Alcoholism, Rape, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Slavery

lqvekanej's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, War, Violence, and Murder

vampire_burrito's review

slow-paced

2.5

edit: gonna re-read this, because I think I was too harsh on the first time round. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Sexual content