Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

34 reviews

cursed_sapphire's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book read like an action move- but a great one. The explorations of genetic science and its relationships to humanity, intelligence, and emotion were really compelling. I saw another reviewer recommend this book if you like the movie Gattaca, and I think it's a great comparison, although this book had more action scenes mixed in. 
My only real complaint is that the main character's arc fell a bit flat at the end- mild spoiler, but

he's still doing the same things he was in the beginning of the story, but on a greater scale.

I will definitely check out Blake Crouch's other books based on this one. This was the fastest I've finished a book in a while, and was a very rewarding experience. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Torture, Medical content

atamano's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide, Dementia

strawberrypinch's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Dementia, Cannibalism, Car accident, Alcohol

katyamwade's review against another edition

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Boring, too many gene code references. Also violence too much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

littlehibou7's review against another edition

3.5

hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first "meh" reaction for a Crouch novel from me. Maybe it's the sign of the times, or I'm truly becoming jaded, but "average white male briefly becomes even more insufferable before making the right-ish choice" just doesn't have the same appeal it used to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Kidnapping

Minor: Child death

sneakysnam's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Murder

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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 I loved this book. The ending was perfect! You don't get a perfect ending with everything told to you. It doesn't end happily ever after, but that's what I love about Blake Crouch's books! I would have liked a bit more about his wife, Ava, Nadine, and Kara, but other than that perfect! It was a wild ride. I laughed, I cried, and I gasped in surprise. It was just a great book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Car accident, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Terminal illness, Torture, Fire/Fire injury

katrinarose's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-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

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Dark Matter and Recursion were both better than this one, but I still enjoyed it. Fast paced, interesting sci fi concepts, balanced with some philosophizing about humanity, but just a bit lacking in character development and the truly mind bending stuff of his other books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

mmccombs's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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This was a book! It was like a Bourne movie that I think would make a great movie, but otherwise it was a dud. It was action packed but the characters didn’t do anything for me and I didn’t really care about the stakes. It’s always difficult to portray super humans, especially super intelligence, just because it ended up being him saying things like “wow I wasn’t so smart now but NOW I’m very smart!” rather than seeing him just… be super intelligent. I also just don’t really care about “perfect” men saving the world, it doesn’t tread new ground or do anything meaningful. Not my favorite Blake Crouch novel (it doesn’t even kind of get close to Dark Matter or Recursion) but it was still fun I guess!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

tanishah's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging informative mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Suicide, Death of parent