Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup

7 reviews

narwhal23's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Violence, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Blood, and War

kys_chai_and_books's review

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Tropey in the best ways possible! A very fun read that's perfect for a stressful work week or a vacation read.

annapox's review

adventurous lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.5

Before the actual review, I just want to say that after borrowing this book from the library I found out that the author is probably a TERF. This did not affect my star rating, but it does affect my willingness to buy the book.

This book is still worth a read. The concept is original, the story is fun, and the writing is mostly satisfactory. Some aspects could have been fleshed out more, but overall I enjoyed it. I'd recommend trying to find a cheap secondhand paperback copy. I read it on the Libby app, and I didn't have the benefit of the different fonts to help me distinguish the author character's story from the protagonist's story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Gore, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Ableism, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, and War

kayceeisbookish's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-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

Compelling and unique. Jill Bearup has gifted us with a truly wonderful and hilarious experience in this novel, the ability to see a glimpse of what it's like during the chaos of the writing process. The emotional rollercoaster both for Rosamund and Caroline's diverging (and sometimes merging) plot points were do amazingly meta. I wish this type of 4th wall breaking book was a type of genre, so I could get more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Grief, Murder, and Violence

jackiepreston's review

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.5

This story worked better for me as a TikTok series than a book. There were essentially three parts of this book: the medieval "fantasy" story of Rosamund and Leo (it kept being referred to as a fantasy romance, but there were no real fantasy elements), the author Caroline interacting with the story characters, and the "real world" story of Caroline struggling to write the book while dealing with her terrible boss. 
I didn't care about Caroline's story at all,

even as it started to really parallel Rosamund's story and as Rosamund started to call her out about it

. Rosamund's story was entertaining in the way it undermined the story tropes that Caroline wanted it to fall into, but the real fun of this story was Caroline interacting with her characters. 
For me, those interactions were more fun in the TikTok series, where the actual story was overall unimportant compared to Rosamund and the author's interactions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: War

Minor: Pregnancy

biojesspj's review

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

So fun to read! Having the characters talk to the author is a great way to sort of break the fourth wall without actually talking to the audience, and it's a fun insight into how writing stories works for many authors. Even without the author interactions, the story would be great to read as a standalone.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Sexism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

The main character'd spouse had been dead nearly a year at the beginning of the novel, and the grief and cause of that death are important to the plot.

bubbles12000's review

funny relaxing medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Pregnancy, Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief