Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

58 reviews

hecubatohim's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death, Classism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Gun violence, and Animal cruelty

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Self harm

Moderate: Dysphoria, Grief, Violence, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, and Blood

Minor: Medical trauma, Alcohol, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Sexism

malley's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Self harm

Moderate: Death, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Racism, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Pregnancy and Gun violence

mockh2's review

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, and Violence

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

4.0

I really enjoyed this story. There are a number of back stories, while slow in places they tie nicely together in the end.

I loved the occasional exploration of using particular words, capitalisations and the general importance of words.

There are fleeting references to various other lands / worlds through the Doors and I would have loved it if these had been explored in some way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Classism, Bullying, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, and Death

angela005's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Classism, Forced institutionalization, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Colonisation, Gun violence, Torture, and Blood

marsh_mall0w's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

This book won't be everyone's cup of tea.

You are reading a book about a book - with the said book chapters included as interludes. Fist 50% of the story is exposition (admittedly beautiful and gut wrenching) and the slow atmospheric buildup might be better suited for an audiobook, given that only around midway the story picks up the pace.

It was very poetic, pretty, but honest and raw kind of a tale. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm

Moderate: Abandonment, Colonisation, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, and Classism

tak_everlasting's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Abandonment, Racism, and Gore

Minor: War and Colonisation

bibliowhore's review

5.0

this book is about a[n]:

1. book within a book
2. wide-eyed logophile folks with fervent longing for adventure
3. escapism from the ugliness and/or banality of life by traveling through different wondrous worlds—both literally and figuratively (which im doing rn—the latter, i mean)

in conclusion: this book and i are a match made in heaven. will file the experience of reading this as one of my favorite memories

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Racism, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Confinement, Classism, and Injury/Injury detail

popsicleplease's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Animal cruelty, Classism, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence