Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

9 reviews

the_true_monroe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Pregnancy, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Outing, Kidnapping, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, and Confinement

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Grief, Blood, War, Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Vomit, Alcohol, Biphobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Homophobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

lectricefeministe's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Murder, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Vomit, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

em_davies7019's review

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Alcoholism, Violence, Death, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Gun violence

cateemma's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

3.5

i will preface this review by saying that i think i would’ve enjoyed this a lot more if i’d reread the first two books. i would highly recommend you reread Chain of Gold and Chain of Iron before reading this!!
i found Chain of Thorns to be a bit slow and dragging, the plot was confusing and i know that’s because the characters don’t really know what’s going on but it just left me not knowing what was happening, so i was only invested in the romances, not the actual fantasy plotline with Belial and everything. 
half the characters were very frustrating and half were wonderful. 
so it was a mixed experience. 

like i said above, i should’ve reread the first two books (and potentially the infernal devices as well) however i simply could not be bothered and i also was very excited to read this. there were just too many things i didn’t remember and while i could infer well enough it still would’ve been nice to understand more and also be more invested in the story and characters. i also read it in random chunks across about a week and i think that negatively impacted my reading experience too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Homophobia

Minor: Grief, Death of parent, and Miscarriage

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-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

4.0

This was a great finale! I laughed, cried, was stressed. The poor Merry Thieves were put through so much in this series! I do think that parts near the beginning could have been trimmed or cut out - this book dragged through the beginning and was longer than it needed to be. But I did enjoy as we got farther into the book and the ending was brilliant. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Homophobia, Blood, Emotional abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Gun violence, Vomit, Alcoholism, Death, and Grief

aj_doyle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, War, Violence, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Addiction

Moderate: Colonisation, Gun violence, and Miscarriage

ewalkergrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Addiction

Moderate: Violence, Sexual content, War, and Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Gun violence