Reviews tagging 'Blood'

In Flammen by Megha Majumdar

8 reviews

donutlookaway's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Islamophobia, Blood, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape

Minor: Police brutality, Confinement, and Grief

egsreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Transphobia, Rape, and Medical trauma

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Police brutality, Rape, and Transphobia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Colorism, hanging, capital punishment, incarceration

ncoletti's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Violence, Murder, and Death

Minor: Transphobia

tbose22's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-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

4.0

No subtlety with this book, which doesn't detract from the plot or characters thankfully but I thought the ending was a bit rushed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Islamophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Blood

deezy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Murder, Police brutality, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

5.0

 In the beginning moments of this novel, terrorists set fire to a train in modern India.  Jivan, a young woman, later posts about it on Facebook, equating police inaction to government terrorism.  In the middle of the night, she is arrested.  PT Sir was Jivan’s P.E. teacher before she dropped out of school after 10th grade.  Unappreciated and power-hungry, he eventually finds himself in the inner circle of the government’s opposition party nearing an election.  Lovely is a hijra, a transgender woman and a member of a community of trans and intersex people.  She’s a talented actress on the hunt for her breakout role, and she’s learning English from Jivan to become more marketable.  The three characters collide amid Jivan’s trial.

Wonderfully read by a full cast, Megha Majumdar’s A Burning is especially relevant in the age of highly-politicized social media and government extremism. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Islamophobia and Violence

Minor: Blood, Death, Transphobia, Police brutality, and Medical trauma

oliviashleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Death