Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Fireman by Joe Hill

4 reviews

pathiess55's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexism, and Fire/Fire injury

smithreads's review

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense slow-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: Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Blood, Body horror, Hate crime, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Self harm

bookishaddictions's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

What is a better time to read about a misunderstood epidemic than during our own pandemic? Follow along with Harper, John (the fireman), and other key characters as they navigate life after the spread of the dragonscale spore. While COVID comes with risks like an inability to breathe, dragonscale can make you suddenly catch fire. Harper and friends are stuck learning how to survive with dragonscale, especially since Harper just wants to survive long enough to deliver her baby. Nurse Harper Willowes will bring you all of the comfort of Mary Poppins, and the Fireman will just in general leave you laughing. This story is full of vulgarity, betrayal, love, and adventure. I absolutely loved every step of the way. It also distinctly reminded me of King’s Cell- both books are 700+ pages, include a spore/virus that leads to a “hive” mentality, and both essentially see the downfall of civilization as we know it. Ultimately, I found I enjoyed The Fireman more than Cell though; the story is exciting, anxiety-inducing, and left me laughing loud enough to concern my family in multiple chapters. If you’re looking to get into Joe Hill’s works, I recommend this one before reading N0S4A2 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, Child death, and Torture

myka's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Violence