Reviews tagging 'Death'

Gemina by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman

54 reviews

kathrynleereads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

No matter how many times I read it, Gemina never ceases to amaze me. Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's abilities to foreshadow, create lovable characters, create truly hatable characters, delve into science as well as science fiction, and keep every single detail straight while doing it are completely unmatched.

It's always a gamble when you're talking about a second book in a series with completely different characters. For many readers, including myself, the characters are one of the driving factors that get me to pick up a book. 

Having fallen in love with Kady, Ezra, and AIDAN, I was shocked to find that I was immediately as drawn into Gemina as I had been to Illuminae, despite the completely new cast of characters. 

The Illuminae Files will forever be one of my favorite series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Vomit, Blood, Medical content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Body horror, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Drug use

itsbumley's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Drug use, Body horror, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Violence, and Murder

jessi_c's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Exciting follow up to Illuminae! Enjoyed the continuation of biological terror mixed in with man-made hunts. The last 80 pages will keep my head spinning for the next 48 hrs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug use, Grief, Violence, Gun violence, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore and Death of parent

multiverse

louisallama's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

5.0

That part at the 600 page mark where Hanna and Nik's actions in the parallel universes is side by side on the page was one of the best moments I've ever had reading a book, and certainly the most impressed I've ever been with a book. The Illuminae Files continue to redefine what a novel can be.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Gun violence, and Murder

meepymeep's review

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Got a bit confusing near the end. It wasn't as gripping as illuminae but I think it could be suffering from middle book flop (or I just don't enjoy middle books as much)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

eloise__'s review

4.0

Ella and Mr Biggles II are so great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide

laurenevlyn's review

adventurous challenging emotional 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

4.25

These books somehow manage to be innovative in an area that is thousands of years old. The Illuminae series is groundbreaking, funny, emotional, dark, imaginative, and incredibly well made. My only issue in reading this book was the transcription sections. I fully understand and see the value of their inclusion (and I adore how they’ve managed to make a lovable character just from the way the transcriber describes the videos), but it threw off the rapid pace that I had grown accustomed to from the chat logs and AIDAN. Other than that, this was absolutely incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Drug abuse, Child death, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Death of parent, Chronic illness, and War

Minor: Grief and Medical content

marsh_mall0w's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Animal cruelty, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide, Child abuse, and Genocide

valslibrary's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Gemina takes place on the Heimdall Station shortly after the attack on Kerenza and the events of Illuminae. Nik and Hanna try to defend their home and survive the hostile takeover of the Heimdall Station while the details of what happened in book 1 come to light. It's super fun and a great sequel to Illuminae! I loved getting to explore different characters that are dealing with the fallout of the attack on Kerenza! Really loving this series!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, and Violence

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious 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? No

5.0

OH. MY. GOD. I think it's gonna take the rest of the day for me to catch my breath after this one. Holy SHIT. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, Drug use, Medical content, Murder, and Blood