Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

8 reviews

paukinra's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Confinement, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, and Alcohol

Minor: Pedophilia and Cannibalism

murk's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Gore, Death, Alcohol, Violence, Murder, and Gun violence

Minor: Cannibalism, Excrement, Child abuse, and Child death

ninczo's review

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime and Racism

Minor: Child abuse, Classism, Drug abuse, and Gun violence

magdie's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I wanted to dnf several times, the most at the worm prison. I finished it only because it was recommended and borrowed from a friend. Potential spoilers although nothing specific. 
To me, the characters felt pretty flat, the plot either dragging or extremely rushed, the translation (Slovak) was pretty mediocre if not outright bad. I must admit this is not my usual genre but it's not like I can't enjoy a good apocalypse story. This one, however, was not quite it for me. At around the Great Worm time I got pretty bored by the Artom gets in trouble, almost dies but by plot armor or Deus-ex-machina-like device is saved by absolutely no effort or merit of his own. It felt like a lazy story structure. It also quite destroyed the attempt at tension since I knew that mc WILL survive and the others probably won't. The world building was pretty nice and interesting in global although in some places (mostly society) still didn't feel quite real. But I liked the contrast and tension between old and young characters and their outlook at the world that the author managed to create.
Also, probably just a pet peeve of mine, but where were all the women? If I remember correctly there were altogether 2 named female characters, both with maybe half a page of screentime (if that)....
But the ending was pretty good, really made for that Humans will destroy everything given the chance.

291, 332, 340

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, War, Gun violence, Murder, and Xenophobia

Minor: Genocide

kuroishi_x's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Racism, Religious bigotry, and Torture

Minor: Cannibalism, Alcohol, and Pedophilia

isaaah's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Body horror, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Cannibalism, Death of parent, Torture, Alcohol, Racism, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: War

ishouldbereading's review

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

I was really looking forward to read this because I love scifi, so I had great expectations. The scifi part of it was good. Not great or fantastic, but good. 
Still I have such mixed feelings about this book. 
It was soo slow paced and boring, so many descriptions and unnecessary subplots. Also character/plot holes - what happened to Hunter for example? It wasn't totally scifi, had some magic or fantasy moments that weren't explained, what happened in the tunnels in the start?? 
ALSO THE END? EXCUSE ME? WHAT HAPPENED THERE????? I NEED ANSWERS!!!
But I really liked the internal monologues of Artyom and I feel like a lot of people forget about this but he had such deep and meaningful thoughts, it was so great to read about it and tbh that's what saved this book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide, Ableism, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal death, and Cannibalism

leahebinns's review

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, and Gun violence

Minor: Cannibalism