Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

In Flammen by Megha Majumdar

7 reviews

laurenw's review against another edition

reflective sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Misogyny, and Excrement

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

emsavors's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

I want to be mad about the ending, but I also feel like I can’t be mad about the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Islamophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Police brutality, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative 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

5.0

This was a tough read (and I can't really say I "enjoyed" it in the traditional sense) but it was timely and well-written. Each character’s perspective feels unique and alive, and their actions are believable even when they're terrible. I felt like the demonstration of a person being seduced into doing increasingly awful things on behalf of a right-wing political party was realistic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Child death, Excrement, Fatphobia, Police brutality, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Suicide

There is a description of a terrorist attack on a train.

A character is executed by hanging.

horrorbound's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• 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

Moderate: Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Transphobia, and Sexism

Minor: Death, Excrement, Grief, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

ohheyitssean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Police brutality

Moderate: Islamophobia, Transphobia, Excrement, and Confinement

Minor: Rape and Child death

catgenevieve's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book surprised me and I felt that it ended too quickly. Though the characters aren’t exactly likeable, I wanted to know what would happen to them next.

Though the book is centered around the end of one person’s life, the life of the other characters seems to be just beginning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, Islamophobia, Excrement, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Transphobia, Rape, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Confinement

Minor: Fatphobia