Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Last Star by Rick Yancey

16 reviews

allymac14's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Child death, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

maddreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

2.0

If I had not already finished the first 2 books of the series and enjoyed them I would’ve DNFed this. That said, it had some interesting comments about humanity 

• I really enjoyed the arc of Ringer
  and the baseball chess was cool and I actually liked the romance but her getting pregnant??? no.
• dude i’m sorry but going Divergent and having Cassie die at the end was just annoying. however, the full circle of the oxygen bombs was good. but I don’t get why the aliens would’ve had a ship for Mr Evil Military because wouldn’t they have manipulated him the same way they did everyone else???
• so many plots ended up meaning nothing but still killed off characters. which maybe was supposed to be deep but just pissed me off and left me with nothing

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Blood

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abortion

livaausma's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

this wasn't enough of a happy-ending for me :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

nicichels's review

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I honestly hated that book. Marika was so annoying. This might be a spoiler, but I was not a big fan of Marika having an happy end at the end of the book. Ben and Marika felt forced as well. The last two books were just less than underwhelming. Sam made me mad as well. All in all, I was a fan of the first book and then it went completely downhill. So sad, since it had a lot of potential.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Miscarriage

yasaman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, Dementia, Blood, Gun violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Violence, and War

psliz's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

2.5

three books in for a confusing, unsatisfying, aggravating finale 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, and Suicide

themoodreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Body horror, Death, Blood, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Confinement, Gore, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gun violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, and Torture

bunnypez's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense slow-paced

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

0.5

The 5th Wave is probably one of my favorite books.

The Infinite Sea wasn't very good, but I still enjoyed it.

The Last Star is probably one of the worst books I have ever read (excluding Allegiant).

What happened Rick? And no, I'm not just pissed because of what happened at the end. I expected it probably half way through the book. I wasn't surprised at all. But no, seriously, what happened?

I loved having Cassie as a main character. I honestly laughed out loud while reading The 5th Wave. She's smart, funny, snarky, and an overall enjoyable character to read. Not so much in The Infinite Sea, especially since they started to focus more on Squad 53, but still she was funny. The Last Star completely butchered her character. Completely butchered it. Most of the time I wasn't even sure if I was reading about Cassie or not. What happened?

The story itself was boring. I feel like Rick repeated a lot of things we already knew. I was bored. There weren't any surprises, excluding

Ringer's pregnancy

, which really left me more disappointed than surprised. What a cheap plot trick. And the fact that they

named the baby after Cassie

considering she and Ringer didn't even have a decent relationship was a complete slap in the face to Cassie. Not to mention they tore her apart the entire time, calling her needy and annoying and assertive, etc. So annoying. I almost threw the book.

Zombie is basically The 5th Wave's Peeta. He's a moron. Gets shot here, gets shot there, makes a bad decision here, makes a bad decision there. But he's cute and charming so I guess that redeems him? Not sure. 

You can fit Ringer's emotional depth in a peanut. The bitch is a robot and apparently the main character of this book. Pass.

I can't even write out a good review because my thoughts are all over. All I know is I didn't like this book and I didn't like the way Cassie was represented in this book. The ending was very final, so there won't be any additional books in the future. 

I wish I had stopped reading this series after The 5th Wave.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

libraryofcam's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.25

Cassie was right from the start and Evan knew it from the moment he met her.

She was destined to be humanity.
Cassie is humanity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, and Blood

Minor: Death of parent