Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

7 reviews

margolovie89's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

The story of the women from the West Indies who live in apocalyptic Toronto was a solid story line. I had my phone out to take note of the language  and spirits. The vocabulary was a bit difficult to understand, but was interesting. The ending was a bit hard to understand with so much going on and so many characters, but reading it slowly and taking notes helped. I’ll defiantly read another book by Nalo Hopkinson. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Slavery, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical content, Addiction, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Body horror

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Violence, Gun violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Drug use

Minor: Ableism, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Racial slurs

lucie_b's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Torture

emalderwood's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed the concept and plot, and would read it again for that. The writing wasn't super polished and the main character was annoying for quite a while, but she managed to redeem herself in the end. The kind of protagonist I spent a lot of time annoyed with but she finally had some growth towards the climax which made the second half much more enjoyable. 

If you like this genre and are okay putting up with character flaws and some areas where the writing is still developing then it's worth the read. I would definitely be interested in reading more of this author's later works as my issues were less 'the author is terrible' and more 'the author hasn't fully come into her prime yet, but has good instinct.'

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, Death, Torture, Mental illness, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gore, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Medical content

solenodon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Body horror, Blood, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Grief, Confinement, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Death of parent, Sexism, Racism, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse

chloebethx_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-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

4.5

Nalo Hopkinson does an amazing job of mixing family, hope and spirituality in this amazing tale following Ti-Jeanne, a woman living with her grandmother in a forgotten city. I found that the first half of this book to be slow but once the plot started to kick in it went very quickly and I could not put it down!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

mothdan's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, and Body horror

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Sexual content

forced drug use and a POV character has to witness someone being skinned alive