Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

5 reviews

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Alcohol, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Blood, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Drug use

ginadapooh's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Classism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and Alcoholism

writerkit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Animal death, Alcohol, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Death, and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexism, Misogyny, Car accident, Medical content, Violence, and Miscarriage

e1oise's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This book is very graphic and moves very slowly. There is not much development given to any characters except the protagonist. I would recommend this book for people who like intense reads, and want to see what it is like to lives as a very poor family in the south. This book shares many important lessons about families, motherhood, and domestic violence.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident, Xenophobia, and Drug use

amanda_fagan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book is definitely not for someone squeamish, as it goes into lots of detail about a few less-than-pleasing topics. Once you can get past that, "Salvage the Bones" was an ok read, although the changing pace made it difficult to sit down and read sometimes. This was a good book, but definitely not one of my favorites.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Gore, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship