Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

23 reviews

leahquay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

RIP Weena

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Animal death

Minor: Death

RIP Weena

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Cannibalism, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Classism, and Colonisation

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

terrortwilight's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Graphic: Child death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cannibalism

szymek_w_rodawski's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

the n-word is used 2 times i think, and i would say one mention a bit racist (it talks about africa as an underdeveloped continent, while africa is way to Diverse to describe it like that) i would probably blame it on the times when it was written

poirot's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Death, Violence, Cannibalism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Grief

meggaloceros's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cannibalism, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

utopiaandmelancholy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Another classic I have finally got round to reading, and a cornerstone of the sci-fi genre. Definitely more philosophical than expected, but told in that story within a story way that so many Victorian novels seem to be. Straightforward and enjoyable, despite already being culturally aware of the 'twist'.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Violence

wishbea's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

Brilliant, an intriguing story and excellent ending. The tale of a Time Traveller having invited several men of various influential positions to his house to tell them about his adventures into the future.

A surprisingly easy read about issues of classism that remain true to this day, highlighting how a rich man would be more likely to believe the future to be a human utopia so of course he'd come to the future unprepared for the dangers. 

The Morlocks were written as convincingly terrifying and I understand why the Morlocks persist in pop culture when classism remains prevalent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Classism, and Death

Minor: Ableism, Racial slurs, and Racism

grandr's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

augusts_2020's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Cannibalism, and Animal death