Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Grievers by adrienne maree brown

3 reviews

meat_muffin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Good god, amb blew me away with this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Drug use, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Classism, and Infidelity

brynalexa's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Realistic, yet magical. A sorrowful exploration of love, loss, duty, and need. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Classism, Genocide, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content, Sexual content, Car accident, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, and Gore

rileywilson's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Classism, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Body horror

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Fire is in the context of cremation, body shaming is more of internalized uncomfort aroudn gaining weight which is then immediately refuted in loving and celebratory ways, child death is present but only briefly. Moderate: Body horror related to loss of autonomy, people in limbo states between dying and living, Abandonment related to the loss of everyone around the protagonist through death and dealing with being along, Classism, Racism, and Medical Content/Themes are major themes of the book, but violence related to this is not graphically detailed. Graphic: Main character deals with being end of life throughout entire book, death is a central theme and the ways people die is described in various ways, the death of Dune's mother is the catalyst and is described also in detail, and Grief is a central focus of this book.