Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

30 reviews

sha's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Infertility, Alcohol, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Violence

headachesince03's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Bullying, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Addiction, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Colonisation, Infertility, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

starrylight's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

I struggled to read it due to lack of quotation marks and age difference relationship. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Sexism

Minor: Miscarriage

schopflin's review against another edition

funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Well-written and evocative. The period detail was convincing but not intrusive. I liked the characters although I found the main protagonist a bit annoyingly passive. Still that seemed true to the time and the number of choices she had. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, and Police brutality

schorlett's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Alcoholism, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Grief, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual harassment, War, and Police brutality

Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

relf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It's 1975 in a small town outside of Belfast. Cushla is a young teacher at a Catholic school who helps out in her family's bar and lives with her alcoholic mother. Between pursuing a love affair with a married Protestant lawyer and befriending an outcast among her young students, Cushla is drawn across complex social, sectarian, and political lines and into the thick of The Troubles. To me, this is just about a perfect novel, with beautifully observed detail of daily life, emotional depth, and a tense, compelling narrative. Loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Police brutality and Injury/Injury detail

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

 god this almost book slumped me
i just found the actual plot so bland and annoying

('gonna have an affair with a 50+ year old married man when im 24 and he knew me as a child :D' *meets his wife* 'omg he has a wife what a fucking bastard' like, girl...)

yeah there was just so much of them and i didnt care about either of them tbh
i also found the lack of quotation marks very jarring because of how she writes, it was just sometimes so unclear whether something was being said aloud
the narrative was also quite frustrating and hard to follow, there would be intense details about specific things and then the next line would be a completely different time in a different place, or theyd be downstairs and then yay we're upstairs, how babe? what? it just felt very disjointed to me
just frustrated me more cause there were bits of the writing that i did like or found interesting but none of them were plot related tbh 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, Police brutality, Death of parent, Medical content, Violence, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Vomit, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, and Infidelity

alrightcalv's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

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

1.5

I didn't really connect with this book, and only liked the character Davy. I'm unsure why writers choose to exclude quotation marks, but it negatively affects my reading experience. I found myself getting lost, and there were so many character names I kept forgetting who was who.

I'm not sad I read it, but meh.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Gun violence

jacquelyneagleson's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

3.75

What’s happening in the background of this novel (the Irish troubles in 1970s) are horrifying but serve as white noise to our MC who is 24 and falls for a married man twice her age. The first 3/4 of the book are slow and meandering, a well-written account of a young girl grappling with an affair, an alcoholic mother, and being a teacher to young children during a tumultuous time in Ireland. The last 1/4 picks up the pace and becomes much more plot-driven. A great debut novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical trauma, Cursing, Death of parent, Infidelity, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Classism, Death, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

caitlin_123a's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual content, Alcohol, Mental illness, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, and War

Minor: Vomit, Body horror, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Blood