Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Frère d'âme by David Diop

45 reviews

kp_pj's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, War, Torture, Blood, Violence, and Death

amorphousbl0b's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and War

poisoned_icecream's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Racism, Animal death, Gun violence, Colonisation, Death, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, War, and Sexual content

emmagreenwood's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Abandonment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Torture, Excrement, Gore, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Physical abuse, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Racial slurs, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, War, and Xenophobia

alexhaydon's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Torture, Death, and Body horror

mrrou's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gun violence, Grief, Rape, Torture, Mental illness, Blood, Sexual violence, Gore, Violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Colonisation

noahsingh's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, and Gore

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Colonisation, Kidnapping, and Torture

Minor: Sexual violence

akane_readsyt's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Grief, Body horror, and Mental illness

Moderate: Infidelity, Hate crime, and Racism

Minor: Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

abbyisabellas's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

suchsweetsorrow89's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Seeing as this book was gifted to me, I really wanted to like it. In thinking of the pros, it is a short and simple read, the plot goes on rather fast. It has all of the parts necessary to make it a good and reflective read, especially for those who are either in a reading slump or just a beginner in diving into the grotesque genre and imagining what critical thought looks like.

That being said, I think my main problem with this book was the translation of it. One of the biggest challenges with translation work is that you want to save all the nitty gritty— all the small things that make the book uniquely it. However, one of the pitfalls of that is that more often than not keeping the nitty gritty can lend to it reading repetitively to the point of it almost feeling like it "tries too hard" to be literature— to the point where it often falls flat, or the book constantly moves at an inconsistent pace of fast and slow. Especially towards the end, I found myself saying "Wait— how did we get here?" or "What's the main point of this?" Though I guess the second question, in some ways, is the point of the book and it becomes especially clear at the end. This book forces you to sit down, draw your mind back, and paint images in your head of what it could all possibly mean. It forces you to cringe, to feel bored at some parts and fast at others in order to truly get a glimpse of what it means to go mad. What it means to be separated yet ultimately connected to those you love? Care for? Trust? It's never quite defined— and in some ways that is what this work feels intended to be. Undefined. There is beauty in this book, do not get me wrong. But sometimes, that beauty is really hard to find, as I am sure it is hard to preserve and replicate as a translator. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, War, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Violence, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism

Just so you know, there are pretty graphic sexual scenes— oftentimes demeaning/discussing the women in strange ways with a murky read of consent. As someone who constantly reads old books that handle the erotic in these ways, I will say that I always believe there is a way you can retell a story that pays attention to these details (even more overt content warnings are sufficient).