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noellegrace8's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I do not factor audiobook narrators' performances into in my overall star rating of a book, but I would give Rebecca Soler a 4.5/5. She did better with this one than the last, with a bit more variance in her emotion, although it still drones or falls flat in parts. Her accents were quite good, actually allowing me to know who was talking when. However, I started to wonder why Scarlet has a French accent (typically, though sometimes Soler forgets to use it) but Kai, for instance, has an American one even though he lives in New Beijing.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
The items I included in "Graphic" are mostly due to violence throughout the book related to themes and characters. This second book contained much more of that than the first. Items in "moderate" are either thematic in occurrence or are detailed enough to warrant more than a brief warning. I did want to explicitly inform the potential reader about my sexual violence/rape warning: it is only threateded/mentioned once in nongraphic terms. It never actually happens/happened.sarahaf712's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Vomit
jfield351's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence and War
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, and Murder
zoeelora's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Abandonment