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laleh_eve's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Bullying and Abandonment
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Colonisation
Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry
neliadiedenise's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail
nyree42's review against another edition
3.5
The narration style would have been grating but I hadn't read anything written that way in a long time, so instead of being annoying it helped place me into the character's perspective, as it was meant to.
Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
chaos_and_chapters's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Blood, Murder, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Police brutality, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Stalking, and Death of parent
karalara's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Slavery, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism
Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Medical trauma
bookishchef's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Juliette hasn't talked to anybody in 3 years and has never known kindness, so of course she falls for Adam: the only person to show her any kind of affection.
But the fact that he uses this, and starts to be romantic and sexual with her? My god, that cannot be healthy. This relationship is going to be so codependent oh my fucking god. I know that they're both only 17, and teenagers are dumb. But this smells of a potential abusive relationship.
Warner was an understandable, realistic person up until the halfway point where he moved past ruthless, right into cartoon villain evil. It felt like there was room for redemption. Like this boy (HE IS 19) was just traumatized as fuck. A very young man trying to keep an army together by being as scary and ruthless as possible.
But then
Why....?
Like, I get the threatening of the toddler MAYBE. But the sexual assault??? How the fuck was that supposed to make Juliette like him? Nobody was around to see it either, so, keeping his characterization in mind, who the fuck was he trying to impress? Because there is absolutely no way in hell that this dude thought Juliette actually liked him after countless no's and her watching as Adam tied him up. I know that Denial is a river in Egypt but Jesus.
Also I hate the ending with the resistance and the Hunger Games esque Castle (who is basically just Coin) and this absolutely bullshit "there's 56 of us and we all have superpowers". Literally gtfo. I have this sneaking suspicion that Castle will end up the same way as Coin does in the Hunger Games too.
A lot of the other reviews complain about he flowery prose, and yes. It is very flowery. I didn't mind it that much, most of the time. But it is definitely there.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Blood
Moderate: Cursing, Death, and Violence
Minor: Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail
The term "psycho" is often used derogatorily throughout the entire book.rplusd's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
Moderate: Sexism
wickedgrumpy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
I don't know if I will continue, I might read the Destroy Me novella since it's at the end of my copy from the library and see how I feel about it then.
Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
saoirse10's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail
oh_roudha_reads's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Cursing
Minor: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail