Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

29 reviews

marirene's review against another edition

5.0

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This strongly feels like the Pit and the Pendulum in space. The tension and dread and inexorable inevitability was so very well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Self harm

boglord's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Excrement

eliaa's review

4.25

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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really loved this, only marked down bc of the dead wife backstory fridging and bc I don’t rly like how it ended, but really strong over all

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use

amyreh's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence

actuallyahorsereads's review against another edition

1.0

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Is Christopher Paolini okay?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

dwarvenwarden's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Shitty husband finds solace in hole

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder

emakay's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

tortle's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book wants what Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer has.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia, Religious bigotry

bean_7088's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Would make an excellent Sci-fi episode. 

Oof this was a hard one. I think I really wasn't in the mood for it? I could tell I would like it, but I had to keep pausing and going back and was distracted a lot.. which really ruins the tension. 

I feel like if Sleep in a sea of stars was ever adapted into a show, this would make a really great episode or parallel B plot kind of thing. 

I also realized that I don't much like the enhanced audio thing much? Aaaand Paolini is fond of Apenicies and whatever and they are torture in audio book. Not as bad at texting chats, but they suck. The whole last hour was just that. 

Anyways, I didn't rate it because I didn't know what to do with it. I liked it, but my listening habits ruined it? So 
Edit:jk, I hated seeing it without a rating. So I just gave it something appropriate for now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Spoilers

it's a falling apart space expedition with alien tech that makes them go a little loose in the head, throw in some angry crew and you also get murder! Whoo!

that_boi_eliza's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Self harm, Violence, Blood

Minor: Gun violence, Vomit