Reviews tagging 'Death'

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher

10 reviews

dillonsees's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Child death, War, Grief, and Violence

kyriross's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Gun violence

hatterxerxes's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

rjsweeton's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Death

sexualedward's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-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

4.75

 Well, that’s all. The Dresden Files was the series that got me interested in reading since I was young. In between starting Storm Front and now, no new novels have come out. When I finish the last of the short stories, I’m out for a few years. Thank you Jim. For all it’s faults, The Dresden Files will always have a special place in my heart for making the door to reading open again.
 I knew many spoilers starting this book (Screw you self control! The Reddit posts were clearly labeled “Spoiler!” Why did you look at it?!), but there were a lot of smaller twists and turns still got me. 
 This and Peace Talks will absolutely change the events of the series as a whole. I can definitely see why Twelve Months is going to be the world shifting into it’s new position and people recovering from what all happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Cursing, War, Murder, Miscarriage, Death, and Violence

Minor: Car accident, Slavery, Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

jennifer1130's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

The last quarter of this book was brilliant, the first 3/4 was painful. I don't mind a battle scene in the Dresden series but when it's the first 300/400 pages on the same battle I find myself getting a bit lost. The imagination required to create the battle scene in your head that the author intended is a bit beyond my limited skills 😆 

This book does contain two giant plot points but it takes too long to get to them. Looking forward to the next book if and when it gets released and I'm sad I've now finished all 17 books after a year of reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

kkarinh's review

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

This was never going to be my cup of tea. Thats why it took me so long to finish. I don’t enjoy war or battle scenes. But, with a name like “Battle Ground”, I knew what I was in for. 90% of the book was a battle zone. Lots of fighting, blood, death, malice. Again, not my cup of tea. I feel like, i could have read the first 10% and the last 10% and been happier. Though I would have missed a fee important scenes and moments. Its a tradeoff 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Violence, and Murder

Be prepared for major characters that you care about to die. No they aren’t coming back.

adapted_batteries's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.5

If the ending of Peace Talks and the title of this book are any hint, it is basically a book-length, epic battle. So, be prepared for loads of gore, fighting, death, Dresden suffering, etc. 

Also, of all the Dresden Files books that needed a cute little short story after the end, this one definitely did, and Christmas Eve was really cute.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Death

valereads's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Homophobia, Torture, and Trafficking

melitta's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence and Police brutality