Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

If Only I Had Told Her by Laura Nowlin

12 reviews

lwiggett's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

2.75

I wish I could rate the parts of the book separately… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Car accident, Grief, Pregnancy, and Death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

alis143's review

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

rchulin1's review

emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This book is split up into three parts Finny’s, Jack’s, and lastly Autumn’s. I enjoyed seeing other perspectives but I wish we also got Sylvie’s or that we saw more of her in general I felt it would have matched the theme of healing this book has since she has a lot of healing to do herself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Vomit, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Self harm, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Child death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

alexisthebookworm33's review

emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book was the closure I needed .It was such a roller coaster of emotions it had me feeling all the highest highs and the lowest lows .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Self harm, Car accident, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

livreads2much's review

dark emotional sad slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Sexual content, Death, Child death, Alcohol, Abandonment, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Drug use, and Eating disorder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Cursing, and Cancer

sydnik3's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Honestly I’m a little disappointed with this book because I think I had the wrong impression what it would be about. 

I really really wanted a retelling of the first book completely through Finn’s POV. So you can imagine I ate up the first third of this book. And you can imagine my surprise and disappointment when the book starts pretty much at the end of the first book. 

I adored Finn’s portion of this book , like seriously adored it. I really wish we could’ve had all four high school years, though i feel like that may not have been right either considering the insights he gives us about Slyvie. 

The rest of the book was just really really depressing and disappointing for me. I think some lines were heartbreakingly beautiful which is why I didn’t DNF. But other times I was bored to be completely honest. 

All this to say, I think I would’ve loved this book had my ideals about it been more accurate , and so with that being my fault and not the author’s in mind and how much I loved the first third, 3⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Child death, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Abandonment, Grief, Car accident, and Mental illness

Massive trigger warning for grief and experiencing a loss.

tibbettsn99's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.5

I really loved this book. In some ways, it wS better than the first. I especially loved the different perspectives.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Sexual content, Mental illness, Grief, Pregnancy, Self harm, Car accident, Death, Miscarriage, and Suicide attempt

r_novigrad's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Vomit

Minor: Bullying

abicaro17's review against another edition

challenging 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

5.0

Jesus. Nowlin does it again. I legit cried the whole book. I can't even describe how horrible and amazing this book is. The book is divided into three parts between Finn, Jack, and Autumn. This gives us two additional insights we didn't have in the previous book and the story extends beyond the first book. It was a tad hard to follow in the beginning as I made the mistake of not reading the first book again but I don't feel like i'm missing all that much as it goes on. The chapters are shot enough that I dont feel like it drags but long enough that it feels like every chapter is detailed. I won't spoil it but good lord every bit of this book was so sad I was crying from page 25 till the end. Thank you so much to Laura Nowlin for finishing this series even when you said it was over! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcohol, Body horror, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Grief, Dysphoria, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Death, Abandonment, Cursing, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

flutelover32's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Abortion, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, and Cancer