Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Illuminae by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman

27 reviews

fairweather_fox's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Chronic illness

Minor: Blood, Body horror, Genocide, Violence, and Death of parent

aydrianr03's review

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

5.0

Personally found this book to be one of my new time favorites. I read the whole thing in 2 days! There’s amazing plot twists, character development, and a ton of other amazing things. Will most likely read this book again due to how good I found it to be:)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Blood, Body horror, Genocide, Murder, and Violence

sabrielsbell's review

dark funny hopeful 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? N/A

4.5

Such a good book! I knew it was a sci-fi romance but I had no idea that the plot would be so brutal and bring you through one hard decision after another.  All of that combined with the fun format made this my favorite book of March.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Genocide, and Gun violence

athousandlives's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

4.5

I wolfed this one down in three days. I had a bit of trouble getting into the story at first, but then the pace quickened (and the death toll grew bigger) and I couldn't stop reading. 

The format was very original and funny to read. The dialogues in the chats were sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching, and were my favourite to read. 

I really enjoyed the plot-twists as well, especially the Ezra-is-dead one, and I was a bit disappointed when a/Kady miraculously recovered from the Alexander destruction and b/we found out that Ezra was alive as well. I mean, I love those guys and I'm glad I can read about them too in Gemina, but I think I would have liked it even more if they had their tragic, star-crossed lovers end, both as heroes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, and Mental illness

vendela's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Genocide, Gore, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma

evervalley's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

0.25

★★★★ / 5
Damn, I didn’t know a lot about Illuminae before going into it but damn it was good, I loved the way it’s set up / the layout it was very intriguing and interesting to read. One thing I wasn’t expecting was that it was slightly horror (I really don’t like horror) but still I really ended up enjoying it, it was a rollercoaster. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Blood, Gore, and Violence

kestrel's review

adventurous emotional funny sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

 The mixed-media format was very enjoyable and the audiobook was amazing!
Something constantly was happening, most of the time several things at the same time. No pause to rest, what an experience.
Not sure if I'd have liked it if it had been written the traditional way, but we'll never know since the format the authors chose was perfect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Child death