Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

93 reviews

karlin0336's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

1st Reread: When I went in expecting garbage, I was pleasantly surprised.  When I went in with higher expectations, I got garbage.  What gives?
In all seriousness though, most of this book was cringey and a bit of a drag on the second readthrough.  The ending was still pretty good though.  (Also, I definitely like Jacob's character in this book and early on in New Moon much more than him later on in the series.)

Original Review (from 2022): 
I finished this book back in February when we had a bad snowstorm in our area (my workplace was closed, so I got a few long afternoons to read). As a result, I think it's always going to feel like a winter read to me. 🤣 Never read it during the original craze, and reading it inspired my dabbling in other popular YA series I've missed out on over the years (such as the Lunar Chronicles).
 I enjoyed Twilight more than I like to admit, and was therefore excited to read New Moon.  4 Stars! ****

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Sexual content

leecymeow's review

adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death, Suicide, Car accident, Murder, and Sexual harassment

sarabrogan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Violence and Murder

mxine_'s review

dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

3.0

looking at this book objectively, that is to say apart from its...dynamic relationship to pop culture, its not actually as horrible as bitter millennial men on the internet will tell you. its by no means a literary masterpiece but Stephanie Meyers' writing style isn't as remarkably bad as ive heard people say it is. its not amazing but its not awful, its just kind of a non-factor. 

the non romantic plot isn't strong at all and its pacing is all out of wack but it is just strong enough to add at least a little sense of paranormal angst to the atmosphere which id say is where the book is strongest; its atmospheric elements are deeply romantic and melancholic; the pacific north western setting is something i found myself lost in throughout the series. and its in these atmospheric elements i think Meyers' individual writing style comes through the most. these parts of the book have some genuinely beautiful prose!

the romance is very corny and there are lines of dialogue that were physically painful to read, but the two romantic leads do have chemistry with each other and if we're being honest here, no one is reading Twilight for its brilliant discourse between the characters. This is the same series that gave us gems such as "you better hold on tight spider monkey! 😜" and "bÃÃttle skaurws 🤠" (two phrases that I quote daily). so if you really dont like a side of age appropriate cringy banter with your cheesy sparkly vampire teen romance, then this probably isnt for you. but if you're fine to embrace the cringe and just read a not-necessarily-awful angsty teen romance book set in the greenest town in america for 2 and a half hours as you try to stave of a depressive episode, then you'll love this.

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Content Warnings

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

rchatterjee188's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

strangelove_mp3's review

medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Incest

rachthecreator's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

picking_back_up's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I am so glad that I read this book at my current age, not around the time that it came out. I had quite the fun while reading, will read it again but in Spanish. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood and Medical content

Minor: Death

zams's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

1.75

This book is still very readable, but I certainly didn't realise how insanely toxic this relationship and Edward as a whole actually is.
In addition to that all of the girls at Bella's school seemed very stereotypey in mostly bad ways

Idk if that's a spoiler or not but does Esme also work or is being a mother to 100-year-old-teenagers and occasionally volunteering and donating her only job?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement

sadies_smut_hut's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail