Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

10 reviews

janchamp's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Solid 4 stars! The audiobook is very well narrated and brings a lot of depth to the story. My only regret with the audiobook is that I felt I missed out on what the Diné words LOOKED like, which is probably weird, but whatever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism

pipn_t's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Really good, I enjoyed this one a lot  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

alyssatuininga's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Really interesting book with extensive cool world building and concepts. It is a post apocalyptic book by a Native American author, where most survivors are  Native peoples. The writing was a little simplistic/YA but the concepts and ideas were really cool. Overall a really fun, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Cannibalism, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

vivavia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Child death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Death, Police brutality, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cannibalism, and Toxic relationship

redthistle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Body horror, Torture, Police brutality, Violence, Child death, Blood, Gore, Grief, Abandonment, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism and Colonisation

raptorq's review against another edition

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, Blood, Child death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gun violence

coffeeandcomedy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, and Death

Moderate: Cursing

Tagged cultural appropriation as a major content warning because there is some controversy around Roanhore using Diné culture/stories/beliefs as she is not Diné.

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

I think what I read of the book was fine.  It's a post-apocalyptic earth with gods and monsters aplenty but I didn't like the main characters.  It's right at the point where I stopped (almost halfway through the book) when you finally start getting some explanations about what is going on/how things work and it wasn't interesting to me.

I don't want to force myself to finish another book I am not enjoying and my tentative rating before quitting the book was somewhere in the 2 star region.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Gore, Sexual harassment, Torture, Gun violence, Sexism, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Child death, and Toxic friendship

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

I usually don't read urban fantasy, and I wouldn't have picked this book up on my own. But it was recommended to me based on my personal references... and it worked. I loved the world building a lot. And sometimes that's actually all I need to enjoy a book, tbh. Loved the post-apocalyptic vibes, loved the Native American influence, the myths and legends and magic. Although the characters weren't perfect, I loved them and their interactions as well. Maggie, the protagonist, has anger issues and impulse control issues and abandonment issues and commitment issues, but for some reason she didn't annoy me. It's understandable where she comes from, and the other characters help to balance everything out. There was not much plot and the bits that were there were very chaotic. But it kind of made sense to me. And I loved that it felt a lot like an Episode (or make it a season) of Supernatural as well as an action-adventure game, where you start out with a clear goal but get distracted by all the side quests along the way. :D

I will say that the showdown/finale/revelations at the end were the weakest part of the story. Half of it was too predictable, half came out of nowhere. But this didn't take anything away from my reading experience. So objectively, this is not a perfect book, but it was perfect for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Police brutality

mhlreadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Dystopian and post-apocalyptic but so incredibly good. I hung on by my finger tips and was very glad the sequel was already out when I finished because I wasn’t ready to put this book down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail