Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

47 reviews

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Mental illness, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Confinement, Classism, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, Violence, Suicide, Slavery, Murder, Physical abuse, Medical content, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

Moderate: Bullying, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Gore, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Gun violence

Minor: Abortion, Pedophilia, Incest, and Fire/Fire injury

silver_lining_in_a_book's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racism, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, and Misogyny

Minor: Medical content, Infertility, and Abortion

maiaw27's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.75

Heartbreaking and beautifully written. The author explores race, gender, sexuality, class, and religion/faith, trauma, power, and madness in a manner so complex and intricate— I need to get all my friends to read this so we can talk about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Self harm, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

bash5617's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Child abuse, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Racism, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

teapoweredrobot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

LOVED this book! There were definitely times it was a hard read but it was so hard to put down. I'd pick it up for a bit of reading for bed and then poof  it's 2 hours after my bed time. It felt like a very timely read with the current US affairs where the struggling working class is banding together to "take on" corporate. (though not nearly so traumatic, it's a loosely connected theme for me) Time also felt a little mushy/not well denoted, much like the pandemic. That did make it hard to track the timeline of events, which hurt it a little bit for me, but it's not really a problem. I particularly enjoyed the mixture of the mystery of trying to find her mom and handling the ship's current affairs. The ending left me satisfied but also wanting more. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Classism, Racism, Confinement, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

dabblingintgeminestrone's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, and Sexual assault

paperbrownies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

- lgbtqiap+, adult, sci-fi, dystopian, space gays, horror, makes you go ✨science ✨, ghosts, drifting through space, DIVERSE, 
- f|f
-rep: black intersex neurodivergent nonbinary woman mc, nonbinary woman sc (see author’s twitter thread), aroace sc and a casting of racially diverse and queer characters 

if i had to say anything about this book, then it would be: 
’talented. brilliant. incredible. amazing. showstopping. spectacular. never the same. TOTALLY UNIQUE. completely not ever been done before.’ 
this. this is my review!!! 

-cw: surgery, medical content, needles, transphobia, misgendering, alcohol, death of parent, systematic violence, illness, off-page and on-page suicide, brief mention of cancer, implied child sexual abuse, body horror, injury/injury detail, self harm, abortion, physical abuse, intake of bodily fluids, child death, fire, suicide, torture, confinement, police brutality, minor sexual content 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Transphobia, Body horror, Self harm, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Abortion

Minor: Cancer, Murder, and Sexual content

tahsintries's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Grief, Homophobia, Bullying, Medical content, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Ableism, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Torture, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

marioncromb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

A good book but I didn't really vibe with it, it was just so bleak, understandably so but it was kinda unrelenting. It was refreshing to have a neurodivergent/autistic main character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Torture, Slavery, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Self harm, Rape, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

alexmoriarty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Torture, Racism, Slavery, Abortion, Blood, Chronic illness, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Rape, Homophobia, Suicide, Death, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Violence

This book is brilliant and beautiful and difficult to read but healing. Takes the science fiction idea of a generation ship and generational trauma and melds them together.