Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

24 reviews

baearles's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Violence and Torture

Minor: Sexual content

georgiaalexturnbull's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Pregnancy

balancethebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Rape, Stalking, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

maggies's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• 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? Yes

4.0

A great end to the trilogy! The pace flagged a bit in the middle there, but overall, the story was just what I wanted it to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Pregnancy, Medical content, Grief, Death, Vomit, Rape, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

foxgloveandcrow's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

cassandrareads_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

yggie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder

juliette_95's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Addiction

onestephatatime's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I read this concurrently with season 3 (it aired once a week where I’m from) and I felt burnt out and over the story by the end of it. Now that some time has passed, I think I can give my opinion on it.

I found that too much and not enough happened in this book. Despite it being 700+ pages, the ending still felt rushed and still, there were a lot of loose ends still untied.

The things I did like were that Matthew was significantly less of a prick (but that's a low bar to begin with lol), and fluffy domestic feels with Diana and the fam. I also liked that

Matthew’s recovery process took time, and it showed the effects it had not only on him, but the people around him as well - the one thing I wished the show had adapted, rather than his one and done recovery (because I know he would have ATE that scene)

. My other favourite thing about this book was that I can pretend that Baldwin was never recasted (iykyk).

And my favourite line of the entire book: “Answer your FUCKING email!”

TLDR; entertaining, fun. What I would have expected for a book that was Twilight for Adults™️. The first two books were *chefs kiss* the finale just felt rushed like the author was writing like she was running out of time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Torture

Moderate: Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail