Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Winter Soldier: Cold Front by Mackenzi Lee

8 reviews

lawbooks600's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

Representation: N/A
Score: Seven points out of ten.

I wanted to read The Winter Soldier: Cold Front for a while but I didn't get around till now. I saw it a few months back but someone transferred it. Months later, I transferred it back when it was finally time to read it. I glanced at the blurb, making it seem intriguing. I almost gave this one three stars, until it redeemed itself.

It starts with the first two characters I see, V, living in the Soviet Union in 1954 as a super soldier experiment, and Bucky Barnes, refusing to enlist for the US army in WWII in 1941, instead taking part in a special British mission, where he meets a woman who plays chess, and plays chess. The pacing is slow as nothing significant happens in the first 200 pages, but it soon picks up in the last 200. I initially found it tedious to read The Winter Soldier: Cold Front, as it switches between time to time and character to character, establishing a non-linear narrative structure, but at least it's not as disjointed as another fictional composition I've read. I didn't bother trying to connect or relate to the characters as Bucky was naïve and V was cold-hearted. It bored me so much I was about to say it disappointed me, but it didn't, because of one moment that changed everything. Bucky and V were the same person, only with a different identity between the years since Bucky was missing in action and the United States presumed him dead, only for the Soviet Union to retrieve and restore him but as another person, whose identity is now V. The action further increased as V tried to escape the lab, but there was a cliffhanger in the end where scientists wiped his mind so he forgets all the memories he had before he became the experiment. That is where the story earns its fourth star.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Full trigger warnings: Death and murder, dead bodies, physical assault and injury, blood depiction, military violence and war themes, World War Two, hospitalisation of a person, near-death experience, amputation (arm)

riespark's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

Graphic: Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Death, Gun violence, War, Medical trauma, Torture, Murder, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Violence, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Mental illness, Drug use, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

seforana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Body horror, Murder, Gun violence, Medical content, Blood, Car accident, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, War, and Suicide attempt

ruckystarnes's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, War, Body horror, Medical trauma, and Gun violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Confinement, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Body horror, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Blood, Cursing, Self harm, Torture, Kidnapping, Suicide, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

callidoralblack's review

adventurous mysterious

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Dementia

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

nicole_zx's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Death of parent, Body horror, and Gun violence

Minor: Car accident and Suicide

foxmulders's review against another edition

mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

this was.... fine. i didn't love the cobbling together of comics & mcu bucky into this bucky, because things fall apart a bit if you look at them too close. 

and the writing style was a bit more... wattpad than Not Easily Conquered-esque "fanfiction" writing. tbh i was surprised when i googled this person and they were a professional author. 

tbh i am not entirely sure who the intended audience is... it's not really comics bucky fans, or captain america fans, or middle grade/young adults that like the mcu... idk. this is a weird book. i had fun with it but it was more of a marvel money grab than the in-depth character study i wanted out of this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, and Murder

mamabeardteacher's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

Fanfic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm, Kidnapping, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol, War, Car accident, and Torture