Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

5 reviews

eclipse799's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Animal death, Kidnapping, Suicide, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexism, Medical content, and Rape

missdanielle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Violence, Sexual content, Child death, Murder, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

emzhay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Reading this book is like watching a train wreck with the most terrifyingly gorgeous cinematography. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexism

Minor: Homophobia

f18's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

As an atheist I distinguish between fiction with Christian characters (usually fine) and Christian fiction (avoid like the plague). This is what I would call a Christian fiction

vampire

novel, and it was really good! I wish more Christian books were this thoughtful about how they integrate religion (and yes, this has almost exclusively been an issue with Christian-focused lit and not other religions).

The faith of the main character was not only forefront but integral and most importantly it tied into the plot in ways that made sense. The characters felt like real people,

well, except for the immortals-- for good reason!

I may not have made the same choice as Jessica at the end of the book, but I understood her. 

By the way, I've seen this listed as a paranormal romance (I actually picked it off my tbr because my library had it under romance + horror) and it is not that at all imo. More of a thriller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Animal death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Sexual content, and Slavery

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Torture

description of lynching,

bury your gays... well, gay, but I think I was so relieved nothing bad about him was said by the Christian mc that I didn't even notice my most hated trope until the book was over

, re: racism-

haunted burial ground trope

, and re: drugs-

nonconsensual drug use

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Murder, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

Minor: Fatphobia