Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

19 reviews

ecallahan's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Racism, Classism, and Torture

narbine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Abandonment, Classism, Murder, Violence, War, and Dementia

Moderate: Confinement, Blood, and Emotional abuse

tales_told_in_gold's review

challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Death of parent, and Confinement

Moderate: Suicide, Kidnapping, Torture, Blood, Body horror, and Dementia

Minor: Racial slurs and Cannibalism

missmiya's review

dark tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Car accident and Dementia

danaslitlist's review

adventurous challenging 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? No

3.5

This was so much more intense than I expected and it was a pleasant surprise. The writing is a big young for me even for it being a YA book and some of the plot felt a little overly convenient, but overall this was a really entertaining time! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Confinement, Suicide, Slavery, Physical abuse, and Death

Minor: Cannibalism

bookishkellyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense

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

5.0

This is a dystopian fiction masterpiece full of plot twists. A company town within a Disney World-esque resort is faced with the activation of modern-day slavery as they bunker down through the destabilization of society. The only con is that I didn’t read it sooner.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, Classism, Death, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Racism and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism and Suicide

albernikolauras's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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

This is a YA horror novel set in a post apocalyptic America where the rich get their own theme park somewhere in the south, and all of the workers get to live happily in their homes.

This novel starts off with a creepy atmosphere and Giles just continues to ramp up the tension in this novel. While some things are predictable, Giles continues to ramp up the tension and the stakes. I really enjoyed the characters, the complicated relationships, and how wealth and race play such complicated roles within this novel. The setting of the theme park and how the apocalypse seems to feed it just roll right into the stakes.

I loved this novel and highly recommend (but there are definitely some trigger warnings to check).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Racism, Racial slurs, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Hate crime

lizslazylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Classism, Confinement, Dementia, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

shewhoturnsallpages7834's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

The first hundred pages were a struggle for me. And Jay’s incredible naïveté irked me but eventually added to the emotional tensions that ran throughout the book, especially after he experiences the darkest parts of the resort and it’s elite.

It is not hard to imagine the sinister plans of the rich and powerful in light of climate change, political divides and racial tensions in the late-stages of capitalism. But the smart use of a vacation resort turned company town riddled with technological fail-safes took this story to another level. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Cannibalism

spookily's review

dark tense medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Blood, Dementia, Hate crime, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, Death of parent, Classism, Physical abuse, and Slavery

Moderate: Body horror, Cannibalism, Medical content, Gaslighting, Bullying, Car accident, and Kidnapping

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, Grief, War, Animal death, and Child death