Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

95 reviews

durrance_c's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Outing, Cancer, Addiction, and Sexual harassment

knicke's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

There’s not a whole lot of mystery-solving that happens here, it’s mostly slow-developing exposition and revelations. Scorched Grace seems to be focused on introducing the protagonist, Sister Holiday, for the launch of a series. 

Also, Sister Holiday has too many contradictory interests and characteristics. This made it pretty difficult to understand/get-on-board with the character.

There is a stained glass motif that is not particularly emphasized, but is really good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cancer, Addiction, Suicide, and Rape

Minor: Incest

aliciavalenski's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Child abuse

evadaisy's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

So unnecessarily traumatising. Maybe it's a good book if you don't mind that sort of thing, but please take care of yourself and check the content warnings. This book is so much darker than I expected and I wouldn't have read it if I'd known.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Sexual violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Homophobia, Cursing, Grief, Incest, Sexual content, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Self harm, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Rape, Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Murder, Drug use, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Outing, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Blood, Bullying, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Violence

simkei's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Police brutality, Grief, Animal death, Classism, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Hate crime, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Rape, Biphobia, Abandonment, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Suicide, Pregnancy, Drug use, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, and Incest

creepycrawlybookworm's review against another edition

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

4.25

This wasn’t your average thriller, it was dark and gritty, but slightly slower paced than many people may prefer, with some dark humour thrown in too.
I appreciated the brutal honesty of the story and the inclusion of plenty of important issues, but can see why this may not suit everyone if they expected something else.
The prose was beautiful, and full of colour and light, with the description of place and character just enough to draw me into the story. There were a few slightly repetitive parts, and loose ends that could have been tied up, but seeing as this is the start of the series, I’m assuming that they will be in the next book. I can’t wait to read it when it comes out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Addiction, Cancer, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Minor: Rape and Pedophilia

ellenigrace's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, and Homophobia

Minor: Self harm, Child abuse, and Rape

laketwentytwo's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Murder, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Rape, Incest, and Pregnancy

rafritz1's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Rape, and Incest

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Bullying, Cancer, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, and Lesbophobia

This book made me laugh out loud several times. I really wish I would have known

the fire investigator was high on pain meds through the entire book

because that would have made her dialogue style make a lot more sense. Besides that, I loved this twist on a murder mystery and I will definitely be checking out more Sister Holiday books if the author writes more.

charlieeee's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment, Incest, Rape, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Animal death