Reviews tagging 'Death'

We Unleash the Merciless Storm by Tehlor Kay Mejia

19 reviews

foxy_amy's review

adventurous emotional 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

This book is full of emotional and romantic moments, combined in a perfect way with tense and action moments. This book also highlights the issues of misogyny and sexism. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny

larbster90's review

adventurous emotional 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content

elenamarmiroli's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Francamente mi aspettavo qualcosa in più da questo libro, nonostante alla fine mi sia comunque piaciuto.

L'opera è partita a mio parere non in maniera interessante, soprattutto perché avrei preferito a continuare a seguire Dani, invece che Carmen. Una volta che Carmen

torna in città, a cercare Dani e la trova

la storia comincia a diventare più coinvolgente e interessante. 

Anche il finale non è male, solo che il conflitto principale viene risolto in maniera sbrigativa e in maniera ambigua.

Quello che mi è mancato in questo libro sono stati anche i paralleli tra i rapporti tra gli Usa sotto Trump e il Messico e le due popolazioni divise dal confine all'interno del romanzo, cosa che era più presente nel volume precedente.

Inoltre, le frasi all'inizio di ogni capitolo erano più interessanti nello scorso volume perché parlavano dei doveri della prima moglie e di come ottenere quello che vuole, mentre queste si rifanno alla rivoluzione, cosa che ritengo meno interessante da apprendere e mi sembrano pure meno vincolate al contenuto del capitolo.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Racism

Moderate: Death

treeworms's review

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

lindseyhall44's review

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Sexual violence

bisexualwentworth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-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? Yes

4.0

I didn’t like this book as much as the first one, but I still thought it was great. I think that Dani and Carmen are equally compelling point of view characters, and I’m glad that this book let us spend so much time with Carmen.

I think a lot of the negative reviews I’ve seen of this book were from people who wanted more of a romance focus, and that’s a little odd to me because the first one was very balanced between revolution and romance and I thought that this one was too.

My only real issue with this book is the plot. Too many things happen too quickly, and they’re often not connected enough to what happened in the first book. I think this is because the author was trying to wrap up the story in two books. 

The overly fast-paced plot along with the addition of two new major characters who couldn’t have appeared in the first book kind of makes me wish that this had been a trilogy rather than a duology. That might just be personal taste, though. I never love it when major players are introduced in the final installment.

But overall, I still loved the characters and the world and I really loved what this book did with Alex, and I would highly recommend this duology to anyone who, like me, is a fan of sapphic forbidden romance and also revolution.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

nefariousbee's review

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Violence

cindespair's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Cursing

kaidoz's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

I honestly liked this one better than the first book in the series. The plot was a lot more fast-paced and it seemed more life or death which made me care about the characters more. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Police brutality, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Grief, Death, and Cursing

Minor: Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Child death, Kidnapping, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Sexual assault

Book centers around a rebellion in a society where women are viewed as commodities. Men are given two trained wives and there is a lot of institutionalized sexism because of it. It also includes war and mentions attacks from the police state.