Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

19 reviews

l_e_lavalle's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

I'll say it...the movie for breaking dawn (part 2) was better than the book because at LEAST it has a little bit of payoff for all the build up.  Do not read if you're bothered by reading about heavy topics related to pregnancy because it is not handled well (in my opinion of course because I've *thankfully* never been pregnant, I could be wrong about how they were handled).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Child death

christinewonder's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, and Pregnancy

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

pinkfawn's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.25

I read this in two days just in my attempt to finally be free from the fresh hell that is my idea of re-reading this series.

This is somehow the best, and the worst book of all of them-- by not by a lot.

Spoilers Ahead
It's obviously S. Meyer's weird anti-abortion manifesto, Bella makes it painfully clear when she, 18 and pregnant, will not give up the baby that is literally a parasite growing rapidly and actively killing her while she drinks blood out of a 7-11 cup as prescribed by a board-certified(?) doctor. 

This triggered constant eye-rolling every time she was described as weak but in the same breath, readers were made aware of how badly she wanted to keep Jakeward or whatever the male baby name idea was. Speaking of Jacob, his entire 'book' portion was so whiny and annoying and absolutely a displeasure to read.

The only mildly entertaining part of this book was the shady lawyer or whatever who was absolutely terrified of Mr. Jasper (can you blame him)? The Volturi scene was so long and drawn out for literally no reason. 

Midnight Sun is still on my radar, but not for a very, very long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

ging090803's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This one is my favorite. It is big but so much is happening. Bella is still kind of a pain in the ass but it is bearable. Edward had is asshole moment but it was not really that important. Jacob, well... it's Jacob. He is still an asshole but, at the end, we like him better because we understand. 
A book this big has its lenghts but, oh well. The only thing i didn't really enjoy, is the part for Jacob's POV. It was interesting but too long for my liking. 

The wedding is nice, the pregancy is intense, the preparation to the battle/the battle itself is really cool. The only thing I always wanted more is scenes with Bella being a vampire. We have had more of it in the books than the movie but still.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, and Blood

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

ashleylowry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Animal death, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, and Violence

breadbees's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Violence, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Gaslighting, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Abortion, Cultural appropriation, Murder, Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Medical content, Blood, and Animal death

Moderate: Pedophilia, Vomit, Abortion, Death, and Infertility

Minor: Violence

merah's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

The mentioned "sexual content" is more of a common conversation, and not actually descrptive. It's a fade-to-black type story.

lizziaha's review against another edition

3.0

This book is definitely a guilty pleasure for me. I enjoy reading it but it is ultimately so deeply problematic that it’s hard to stay in the story. Aside from Meyer’s regular racism involving the Quileutes (quite literally insinuating that POC are animals) and her drastic white-washing of every single vampire character, there were other problems.

The way Meyer handles Bella’s pregnancy carries deeply anti-abortion sentiments—with the people trying to prioritize Bella’s life being framed as the antagonists. Additionally, solving the love triangle by making Jacob fall in love with a child?? I know that Meyer tries to pretend like it’s not like that but it’s truly insane in my opinion. And with jacob’s perspective we get a healthy dose of misogyny and just a sprinkle of homophobia, so that’s unfortunate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Racism, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, and Misogyny

Minor: Homophobia