Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

5 reviews

sestout's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Emotional abuse, and Grief

rayannotates's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Grief, Abandonment, Terminal illness, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Violence, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion and Death of parent

eligru's review

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

It was nice to read short stories again. They make for entaining short breaks in a busy week.

Although I did not like all 10 of them, I feel like many of the stories will stay with me for a long time. They share some running themes like writing, parenting and getting over a past relationship. My favorites were:

1) Five Tuesdays in Winter 
(about second love, fatherhood and bookshops)

2) Waiting for Charlie 
(about an old man looking back on life)

3) Timeline 
(about a writer, her brother and their neighbours)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexism, Pregnancy, Homophobia, and Infidelity

ellalucys's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, and Homophobia

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

Minor: Abortion

carolyncoogs's review against another edition

These stories are so messed up. I didn’t read the last few of course since I stopped at 72%, but I finally decided to free myself from the chaos and misery. There was one story about a father, daughter and stepmom that was somewhat endearing, but otherwise yuck. I do have a little trouble with short stories because I never know don’t know what I’m getting into but this collection was not for me. I would not recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and Infidelity

At least one story tows the line on nonconsensual sex