Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

30 reviews

shannnne_reads_words's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Ableism, Vomit, and Cannibalism

Minor: Abandonment, Excrement, Homophobia, and Suicide

wsteen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Cannibalism

eatallthestars's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book redefined what a 5 star book is for me. It feels this masterpiece was crafted by gods and cradled by angels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War, Alcohol, Sexual content, Child death, Violence, and Torture

immovabletype's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, War, Death of parent, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Classism, Death, Gore, Murder, Body horror, Cannibalism, Cursing, and Excrement

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Trafficking

cadence99's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

5.0

It’s so rare that I find a book that is truly top of my list, five stars, yet this one has absolutely hit it out of the park. A rolling, poetic masterpiece that weaves together two ends of a long tapestry with such beautiful precision. I listened to this one on audio and I’d HIGHLY recommend the experience as it very much feels in the style of oral storytelling. I suspect that this book will stay on my mind for a long time, and it has certainly earned a spot among my all time favorite reads.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Vomit, War, Death of parent, Torture, Violence, Grief, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Addiction, and Alcohol

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, War, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent, Dysphoria, Child death, and Torture

Minor: Alcoholism, Classism, Alcohol, Colonisation, Homophobia, and Confinement

booklifeisthelife's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. It was dark, gritty but also lyrical. It had me on the edge of my seat. The way it was written was great and different but also challenging and confusing which is why there it's a 4 and not a 5. But the story is engaging, the characters interesting. There was a lot of twists and turns I did not see coming. Unpredictable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Sexual harassment, Cannibalism, and Torture

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Rape, and Child death

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Torture, Grief, Murder, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Sexual content

brinipor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

WOWOWOWOW! This is one of the best books I've read in a minute! It's not for everyone, but it was for me! Normally, I don't like dense, slow-paced books, but this one had so much happening that I was having a grand old time. If you are into frame stories, messy characters, and don't mind second-person narration and hearing from all perspectives, I'd give this a try.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Cannibalism, Gore, Violence, and Ableism

Moderate: Kidnapping, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

nolemdaer's review against another edition

gave up on this one with its intense, gory descriptions of cruelty - like we get it, empire bad, men mean, oppression sucks. it was like the radiant emperor duology but more "teehee this is ~experimental" overall and thus became grating. like WE GET IT i don't need to hear how another person was randomly brutalized in some creative graphic way to understand that the emperor sucks. it was giving torture porn lowkey and the tone of the whole book is so "fairy tale" (i guess) or, perhaps more aptly, "mythology" that this becomes a series of stock characters being tortured for the vibes rather than a true look into the viciousness of empire and evil. everything was told; the main characters had no discernible inner life at this point; and none of the victims were humanized any more than to make you feel bad when they died gruesomely. the whole book was like a cartoon of a commentary on oppression and was never tied down enough to make that mean something, if it was supposed to.

i didn't mind the perspective switches as much as i might have and didn't find them difficult to track, but eventually all the headings and the italicized first-person plural bits got more egregious than interesting. some bits were clever (the egg timer?) but all the frame stories dragged. nothing here felt real; nothing was anchored to an actual character or feeling. i wasn't going to sit through 400 more pages of pantomiming a story with something to actually say about violence and pain other than that they happen when your ruler is a nutso sadist

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Violence