Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

45 reviews

annaxavila's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcoholism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Abortion, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer and Child death

ajhowe2's review against another edition

reflective relaxing slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Addiction, Infidelity, Eating disorder, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion, Racism, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death

snipinfool's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.25

It was 2020 and the world as we knew it had stopped. Lara, Joe, and their three daughters were on their farm working to harvest the cherries in their orchard. To pass the time, the girls wanted to know the full story of how Lara ended up dating someone who later became a huge movie star. Growing up, they had heard bits and pieces of the story but never heard it from beginning to end. As Lara moved through the story, more about their lives as a family on the farm unfold. 

I really enjoyed reading this story. I loved how Ann Patchett wove the story together by linking the play, Our Town, with the impact playing the lead character, Emily, had on Lara throughout her life. Playing Emily in Tom Lake's summer stock performances was where she met Peter Duke, who would become a very well-known actor years later. That summer, Lara learned that she needed to pivot and take a direction that was unexpected from what she had planned. I felt much like Lara's daughters did in that I was excited to learn more of the story. The dialog between characters was natural and well written. The characters, themselves, were easy to visualize, and I could picture so many parts of the story in my mind. Overall, this was a wonderful novel about family and how big moments in life could lead to unexpected changes that end up bringing us to where we find our greatest happiness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion, Cancer, and Child death

tlaynejones's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Drug use

Minor: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

shae_reads's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

This was a book club choice. It was very boring. This novel is character driven but the characters were one-dimensional, unlikeable and uninteresting. In my opinion nothing interesting happens except

when Uncle Wallace throws up all that blood on stage but still finished the show!

There is also very little romance involved in this “romance” novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

Minor: Death, Chronic illness, Abortion, and Cancer

hinkleh's review

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Medical content, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Death, Vomit, Cancer, and Racism

Minor: Suicide, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

rayreyes's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

4.25

Solid book. Took me up until 50% through to get invested in the story. Really lovely and would recommend overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Racism, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Death, and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Abortion

katherine_alexis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion

jamie_rich's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Drug use, Vomit, Sexual content, and Mental illness

prairiek's review

emotional reflective slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content