Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Ledge by Stacey McEwan

11 reviews

aurora4847's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Child death, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Sexual content, Violence, Confinement, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Misogyny

Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Torture, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

typedtruths's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.75

this was genuinely terrible but i had a lot of fun. just don't ask me to explain the world-building because it was paper thin

▷ Representation: Ryon (mc) is brown; Esra (sc) is nonbinary & uses he/him pronouns; minor f/f side couple.

Blog • Trigger Warning Database • StoryGraph

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Child abuse, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

➸ Trigger warnings for slavery, attempted rape, sexual harassment, blood and gore depiction including mentions of mutilation, decapitation, death of a grandmother recounted, death of a mother from suicide, multiple deaths from falling off a cliff or from a great height, imprisonment, murder, axe, sword and dagger violence, disappearance and presumed death of a child/sister, loss of autonomy (magical), mass death/massacres mentioned, poverty and food scarcity.

emmacartlidge's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

annaka's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

The initial premise of the book was interesting and I enjoyed how McEwan revealed the world and offered answers at a pace that kept things interesting. There was a bit too much smut/lost without you love (afte falling quickly) for my taste. Some of the inner monologue got a bit annoying for me, largely related to the above qualms. However, I remained engaged and willing to return to it until the story was finished. 

Overall I enjoyed it but would be unlikely to reread it… the issues above combined with the one below, made it a likely one time only story for me. Could be great for a different type of reader though. 


Now… light possible spoilers ahead…


I didn’t care for the ending. To me it wasn’t a good set up for the next book but rather a huge loss or a huge throwaway when everything somehow resolves in the next book’s initial chapters. The wrong kind of cliffhanger to try to entice you to pick up book two. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

kat1105's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Kidnapping, Animal death, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Blood, Classism, War, Alcohol, Body horror, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, and Sexual violence

meat_muffin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I loved this. Absolutely loved it. Blasted through, sad it’s over, am D Y I N G that the next one won’t be out for months - and on that cliffhanger?! How very dare (but I still adore you, Stacey!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Racism, Classism, Slavery, and Colonisation

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Cursing

Minor: Sexual harassment, Confinement, and Alcohol

jackiepreston's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexism, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Child death, Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Torture

shannanigans92's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Slavery, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death of parent, Death, Suicide, and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Sexual harassment and Child death

amre23's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Violence, Slavery, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, Genocide, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Minor: Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Classism

soniajoy98's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, Cursing, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Child abuse, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide

Minor: Cannibalism, Torture, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse