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rjbennett07's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Misogyny, Death of parent, War, and Classism
nakedsushi's review against another edition
3.0
It is really weird to be reading this book at this stage in US authoritarianism, and I thought it would hit harder, but something about the writing made it difficult for me to really immerse myself into it. Maybe because of the sexist overtones of the main narrator, even though the point of view shifts multiple times, but I couldn't really get into the headspace. Even getting more background in the characters, which would make them feel more real didn't make their deaths that powerful.
I ended up skimming a lot of chapters, especially ones about random students mostly because I knew what would happen to them, or it was a repetitive rehash of their death, which I already read about from a different character's point of view.
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Violence
Moderate: Homophobia and Pedophilia
genderspookies's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Cursing and Grief
Minor: Homophobia
vintagesunkist's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual content
aligorical's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Homophobia, Vomit, and Kidnapping
Minor: Drug use and Car accident
essiie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical content, and Car accident
Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, and Death of parent
shark67372's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.5
Graphic: Child death and Violence
Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, and Transphobia
Minor: Lesbophobia
capitan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
takeachance's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
The action scenes are good, and the booking is Really really good. You can tell that Koushun Takami is a wrestling fan aha.
While it's a big book, it moves Fast, the scenes just flying by and the end of chapters giving you Just enough to want to keep reading and reading to see what happens next.
My main problems with the book are the kinda over the top and vague details of the political system. I definitely believe its a fascistic system, but when it tries to make it a communist system as well, it kinda fails because the state seems to have absolutely nothing to do with communism or it's theories? And then to pit it at odds with imperialist America is odd? I know there's a deep and complicated history in japan, considering their role in WW2 and the rise of nationalism that preceded that, and then in turn you have what happened afterwards and the ways America did change ways Japan did things for the negative in the fallout after bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki... History and the way it effects culture is complicated, and to be fair, I don't really have the knowledge of it as a whole, but I do know many Japanese creators work through these ideas and that it's something that many of them keep in mind so... IDK
There Is something interesting being done here re: that, but also I don't feel like it's really well fleshed out or anything. It works as a backdrop to the character drama and and conceit that makes the story move, but on its own it kinda fails.
But that's honestly a relatively small criticism in the face of the rest of the book, which is a really exciting book about teens being teens and how they experience and process trauma, but Also about them killing each other because a good amount of them don't trust each other and want to survive.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Rape, and Vomit
Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Classism
mysteryspouse's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Pedophilia, and Death of parent