Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Flux by Jinwoo Chong

6 reviews

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.5

If you know the movie

Groundhog Day (1993)

you will be familiar with the order of some events within this book. It is particularly easy to lose your place during the audiobook and then be confused until the events start to wrap up. There are some really poignant moments between characters, especially towards the end of the book. It may be easy to predict how certain characters are connected together throughout the events of the story, and the 'villain' is also very apparent well before the big reveal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Bo has a scene where there is a stick stuck in his hand and his wrist is also broken. Brandon and his boss have a toxic faux friendship where drug use is common. Blue and his family have a history of verbal aggression, if not abuse, and he struggles to maintain/fix his connection to his family- there is a tense Christmas Dinner scene. Blue is nonverbal but this is "fixed" with some sort of implant in his neck.

pond_newt's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I really loved this book. It took me a while to get into it and I was quite confused for the first quarter of the book but it brought it all together very well by the end. There were some really emotional scenes throughout the book, especially from the POV of Bo, which hit very hard. Although it's sold to be about time travel the main focuses are grief and family, with the sci fi elements largely taking a back seat. Massively recommend, particularly if you enjoyed the show Severance as they share similar tones and themes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Dementia, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Racism, Violence, and Pregnancy

lego28's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

ukponge's review

challenging emotional sad 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Violence

imds's review

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Biphobia, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Kidnapping

booksthatburn's review against another edition

I like the way the narrative is layered, and the commentary on the role of media in the formation of identity, especially when that media was not ideal representation, all of that was very interesting, and is part of why I kept reading for as long as I did. but either most of what’s in the description for the book doesn’t come in to play until the second half, or I’m missing something huge in the story. I’m not sure which, and I’m ultimately ended up not finishing it. I think this is the first DNF that I might want to revisit later when I’m in a better headspace, that time just isn’t right now. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent