Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Dark Age by Pierce Brown

80 reviews

rooooobenreads's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book has aged me. It's such a darker step into the story so far and, while it builds a lot like the previous book, it does it in such a better way..... Even if that way made me sad. 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

queenfimbrethil's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous dark sad tense fast-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

5.0

As always, a great addition to the red rising saga. Brutal, crushing, but I can’t wait to start the next one.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

malloryanndickson's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I am a huge fan of all of the red rising books. This one took me much longer to read than all the others in the series. There are many story lines happening at once and I found myself having to re-read a bit to put all the pieces together but WOW this hit me with so many emotions. I’m scared to start Light Bringer because I am afraid of what is to come and also so sad for this series to end. 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

jessreadshehe's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

5 star read 8 days into 2025 🤩 

Pierce Brown is a savage!!! 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

loremachina's review against another edition

Go to review page

medium-paced

1.5

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

rachela_7's review against another edition

Go to review page

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

4.0

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

gryffindor88's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark sad 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? Yes

3.25

I struggled to get through this book. It is very long and ping pongs between multiple POVs and storylines. This made it difficult to keep up and to connect to the emotional plot points. My least favorite of the series. 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

tafeeeeee's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • 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

As Pierce Brown said he hoped in the Acknowledgments at the end of this book, "I loved and loathed this story". It was so brutal and the scenes Brown paints with his words are so visceral. The way you can go from smiling for the characters' successes to feeling dread as everything is pulled out from under them is exhilarating. 

This series has taken me on rollercoaster after rollercoaster of emotions. I have been disgusted my all of the protagonists' choices, just to root for them chapters later. They are all so complex and brutal in their actions; so passionate and determined to enact their plans.

I love how immersed I can become in Brown's literary world. The whole time I just wanted to leave work so I could get back to the story. I even got annoyed that my college graduation was taking so long because I wanted to leave so I could keep reading lol.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

lauralizbuckley's review against another edition

Go to review page

I hadn't been particularly enjoying it for a while - I was finding things that should have been exciting really tedious, and was growing a little weary of the endless violence and main characters' plans being foiled - and then something happened that was so gratuitously nasty and unpleasant that I realised I didn't want to know any more about any of these characters. I've never DNF-ed a book because of a single event, I'm not particularly easily shocked, but it was a combination of the deeply awful nature of that event and the fact that it crystallised for me the fact that I just didn't care enough anymore about the story to put myself through any more of that nastiness.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

literally_kyle's review against another edition

Go to review page

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

3.5

Expand filter menu Content Warnings