Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

36 reviews

cepbreed's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

5.0

Every. Fucking. Time. I’m SAT HERE thinking “how is Darrow going to get out of this” and with that ending…lord help me. I actually want to like stomp around out of pure shock and frustration but I’m at a hotel sharing a room with my brother. I literally can’t compute. Pierce Brown when I catch you! This man has mastered the genre I swear. Never have I read a series where all the book are perfect but now Brown is two for two. Especially in Golden Son I noticed how perfectly he incorporates dialogue. This man will spin a flawless speech that could even make me charge into battle, but also encapsulate the effortless dialogue that occurs between friends. When Darrow’s allies are all interacting (Sevro, Roque, Mustang, Victra etc) a part of me is warmed. That same part forgets that half of them will probably be dead before the series ends. Who am I kidding, before the book ends. They’re literally my age, or just slightly older. My heart is broken. Speaking of friendships: Sevro you have bewitched me body and soul. Somehow this man rose so quickly up my favorite characters list it’s not even funny. His relationship with Darrow is one of the best parts of this series and it obviously has so many good parts. I love that little freak and all of his loyalty. His daddy however…

I love the Fitchner as Ares falling for a Red a storyline but I lowkey wish Sevro wasn’t half red, his loyalty to Darrow should be separate from color entirely (even if he didn’t know when he allied himself with Darrow it’s about the principle of the thing. It’d be like Tyrion not being Tywin’s son in A Song of Ice and Fire). Also, that ending makes a part of me think Fitchner isn’t actually Ares. To introduce that tidbit only to execute him with so little ceremony makes no sense.

I guess I’ll see as soon as I get my hands on Morning Star. As for Sevro’s mother,

the whole thing about her having to get an ovary transplant(?) actually inspired a lot of questions about the verse in me. I had just assumed every human was still genetically one species (produce viable offspring at least) but is that not true? Has it gone to the point that colors are species? Or is that bit emphasizing how brainwashed society is, how everyone believes different colors to be so incompatible?

 

Okay my last couple of throwaway comments.

Lorn deserved so much more page time I’m PISSED. IDGAF about the ending Roque is so underrated. Mustang please be true like you’ve always been!!! Guys she’s just processing the news I swear.

I swear I have so much more to say I just literally don’t have enough neurons to fire up those thoughts right now. My whole brain is consumed by whatever the fuck just happened. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Gore, War, Classism, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Medical content and Rape

amemuuras's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and War

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Excrement and Rape

clara_groeni's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Slavery, Violence, Genocide, Grief, and Death

War

themetalotaku's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, War, Violence, and Murder

malreadsthebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Incredible book, fantastically narrated. Even better than the first. I’m hooked

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Violence, Murder, Gore, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and War

Moderate: Child death, Slavery, Kidnapping, Racism, and Physical abuse

meridith_bex's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Violence, Murder, War, and Colonisation

Minor: Vomit

gandalf_a's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Vomit, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, and Classism

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Cursing, and Grief

Minor: Cannibalism, Genocide, Sexual content, Alcohol, Excrement, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Child death, Trafficking, Death of parent, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Rape

linneak's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring tense medium-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: Death of parent, Genocide, Physical abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Slavery, Gore, Blood, Death, Grief, Torture, Classism, War, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Murder, and Toxic friendship

erikajosephison's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I found this instalment a little more complex and difficult to follow than Red Rising - a little too much detailed world-building and in-world slang/terminology for my personal liking (though this might appeal to many). I also found the book seemed to use the same plot twist over and over again throughout which started to make it predictable. However, the pacing was good and I liked the relationship-building between the characters and the character growth. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Grief

kiwij96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

The political worldbuilding of this series is honestly stunning. I'm so glad that the second book distanced itself from the educational Hunger Games-ness of the first book because at times that was stagnant. But this was so much easier to read. So much happened in these 450ish pages that I don't even know where to begin.

Falling out of touch with friends, betrayal, plot twists which I didn't see coming but thought worked for the characters. It was all so perfectly chaotic I loved it. That ending was a stroke of genius.

Two gripes:
1. The first 6 chapters could have been a prologue just to catch us up on Darrow's life since book 1 since a couple of years have passed. It also felt a bit clunky at the start.
2. I have literally no idea what any of the things are which confuses me sometimes - like what is a ripWing, or a HC, or an anything?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, War, Murder, Classism, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Child death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Rape, and Slavery

Minor: Suicide and Pregnancy