Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

242 reviews

yzer2468's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Alcohol, Drug use, Blood, Addiction, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Death, Classism, Drug abuse, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Gun violence, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Mental illness, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexism

maybeimali's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Homophobia, Murder, Death, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Animal death, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Sexism, and Suicide attempt

bubblyfemme's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

Tartt has the ability to make five hundred pages feel like fifty. She is exquisite at pacing and her stories always have me turning the page to know more. Her books are like drugs, addicting and alluring, this book is no different.
This is such an interesting study of class, the evils of old money and a brilliant satire of the ever-growing hunger to romanticise old money and elitist acadimia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Incest, Drug use, Alcoholism, Death, Alcohol, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Homophobia

Minor: Car accident and Physical abuse

taylorbrooke's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Murder, Incest, Drug use, Alcohol, Grief, Gun violence, Alcoholism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Violence, Death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

sasquatch_3's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Incest, Gun violence, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual violence, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Grief, Drug use, Death, Cursing, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Vomit

elibrownn's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Racism, Religious bigotry, Drug use, Alcoholism, Suicide, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, and Panic attacks/disorders

_viola__'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Excrement, Drug use, and Blood

sgtbuckaroo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I really did enjoy reading this book, the characters and the story. However, enjoying the characters does not mean liking them as people. Because they are most definitely not meant to be likeable people. Enjoyable? Yes. Likeable? No.

They are all, in some way or another and some more than others, people who you wouldn’t want to be around in real life. Each character has at least one undesirable trait, and they are all morally gray if not explicitly bad people. However, I still found them enjoyable, which I believe is made possible by the fact that they are clearly not meant to be likeable as human beings.

I also found it very interesting to read about and analyze Richard’s perspective of everyone else, and compare it to my understanding of them (although using only Richards observations).

The writing was good, as one would expect from a writer such as Donna Tartt, although a little difficult at some points which I believe is because  I am not a native English speaker. However, even though some parts were more difficult than others, they were never to the extent of being too much or unintelligible. 

I’ve put off reading this book for quite some time, but I’m very glad I got to reading it. It’s a great story, and a very interesting one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Murder, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Incest, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Panic attacks/disorders

nesquik05's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Alcohol

uss_mary_shelley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Addiction, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexism