Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Wool by Hugh Howey

15 reviews

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

jerseynoonatic's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

This book has so many surprising twists and turns! And the world building is fantastic! I felt like I had a clear picture of it without being bombarded with details.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, and Death

scmiller's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Death, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Child death, Gore, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, Mental illness, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Stalking

mardana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Gun violence, Violence, War, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Death

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

I haven't seen the tv show. I've only seen one short clip of a character saying

they wanted to go outside / they're lying to us

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Really enjoyed the writing style and the narration. 

Loved the feeling of tension created through

POV characters getting murdered, made you feel like anything could happen to any of the characters! Really made the 2 fake-out deaths super effective!

I also really enjoyed the inclusion of an unexpected theme

(romance)

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The only thing I didn't love was that part of the story didn't make sense to me when I thought more about it

like I don't get why the deepdowners were so keen on immediate revolution

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Murder, Torture, Violence, War, Confinement, and Classism

cat12345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Body horror, Cursing, Excrement, Infertility, Gore, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Police brutality, Child abuse, Incest, Stalking, and Bullying

nukie19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Death, Medical trauma, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Excrement and Pregnancy

jessy4550's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Gun violence, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Grief, Blood, Gaslighting, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Death, Death of parent, and Bullying

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Classism

mangofraiche's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, War, Excrement, Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Violence, and Murder

andrewhatesham's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I rarely read books that are over 300 pages, but this book drew me in at the first sentence and kept me interested down to the last sentence of the last page! I thoroughly enjoyed the plot, and the writing style is pretty good too.

I would recommend this to those of you who like sci-fis that aren't heavy handed with technical jargon and dystopians that aren't horrendously dark/graphic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Violence, War, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Cursing

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Incest, Infertility, Grief, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Medical content, and Death of parent