Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

17 reviews

zotty's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

bethancy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Alcohol

Minor: Medical trauma, Murder, Gun violence, and Animal cruelty

seawarrior's review against another edition

mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

Unsettled Ground is a beautifully written book about two middle-aged siblings coming to terms with the fragile falsehoods their stagnant life has been dependent on. Additionally, it's a story about a subborn and immature woman taking responsibility for her life and wrangling the means to survive despite immense unfairness and lack of knowledge. I appreciated that while each of the characters does terrible things to one another throughout the course of the novel, Fuller writes them with enough depth to comprehend the choices they've made, even though it may feel wrong to forgive them. From the outside this story may not seem very engaging, but I devoured it and was glued to every page. Fuller has earned her place as one of my favorite writers and I would definitely reccomend this book to other realistic fiction readers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity

simoneg's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore and Gun violence

gabbyyy_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Infidelity

wandawinterland's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Well that was nice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Gun violence

graybat's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

4.25

elements were predictable but i read this weirdly quickly for me. idk something about the atmosphere dragged me in. p depressing read tho  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Infidelity

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Chronic illness

lydiavsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

Stayed up to 3:30am to finish this, read the last 200 pages in basically one go. It's depressing, it's sad, the whole way through just watching these siblings and wishing you could help them. The characters are complex and real and you can't help but care for them. They grow and they break and it's so brilliantly done.

Though it's definitely more character than plot I really enjoyed the small element of mystery at what their mother was hiding and why they seemed to be the only ones to not know. 

Also possible aro-ace rep? Love to see it

Really loved this and pleased to say it lived up to the beautiful cover.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Gun violence, and Chronic illness

shafaerie's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism