Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

18 reviews

jrae_miller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Alcohol, Confinement, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Death of parent

mrsmoy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Animal death, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Blood, Vomit, and Violence

sshabein's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Glad I finally read this, but WHEW, all the warnings if you're at all sensitive to dogs in peril or have particular feelings on pregnancy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent

searobin's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I was so close to DNFing this around 20-25% of the way through. It just didn't grab me at all, and I was still having a hard time getting to know the characters. I kept listening because I didn't have anything else ava lable at the library before catching a bus, and I'm glad I did! I really enjoyed how it all came together. Some parts of this had me grimacing through them, and others had me feeling so much for the characters. It was quite the book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Bullying

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Alcoholism

shainabriley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Blood

paigepeploe's review against another edition

dark tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

evhanson's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and Death of parent

legendarymeep's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

ceriokie's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Salvage the bones follows a poor southern family preparing for a hurricane. Across 12 days, the author maps the current happenings in the book, with flashbacks from the past woven in the text. It is ultimately a coming of age novel that observes a family as they step through the roles in a family and a girl exploring the idea of motherhood and what it means. Overall an okay book, but graphic descriptions and almost predictable. Each choice the author makes is well thought out and has the potential to be a great book for someone, that someone is not me. Some parts of the book seem like they could've just been cut, they make it kinda a harder read. Also big conflict that kinda ends unresolved, dog becomes concept?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail