Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

De aard van breekbare dingen by Susan Meissner

10 reviews

stephaniealysse's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Infertility

franklola's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Medical trauma, Abandonment, Death of parent, Death, Infertility, Medical content, and Car accident

madelinedalton's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual content

maddiet425's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Medical content, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

ltulisiak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

3.75

3.75 stars. This book was a very quick read (listen) with enough drama and emotion to keep me hooked throughout. It centers around a young lady who is an Irish immigrant who initially lived in NY, but chose to answer a mail-order bride advertisement to move to San Fransisco to take care of a widower and his young daughter. However, not everything is as it appears. There are secrets to behold from every adult in this book. Ultimately it ends up being a story of strong motherly love, female relationships/friendships, and sometimes having to leave trauma or tragedy behind to start anew. 

This is not one of my all-time favorites, and realistically I will probably have to re-read my review and the synopsis in a year or more in order to jog my memory as to what this was about. But I was looking for something quick and enjoyable, and this did just the trick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Infertility, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, and Death

Minor: Miscarriage and Child death

bookmaven17's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content, Child death, Infertility, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

This story centers around the history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The main characters contend with injuries, encampments for the displaced, and the fear and uncertainty surrounding escaping the city following a natural disaster.

mwvandermeulen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.5

Tugged my heartstrings with the story of an almost-orphaned 5yo girl needing a mom, the bond that she forms with her dad’s “mail order bride”, the  destruction of the San Francisco earthquake at the turn of the century, and female friendships. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

ashleysbookthoughts's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This book was perfectly fine. It was a fast, fairly compelling read, though it often felt incredibly predictable and rather generic. The foreshadowing and allusions to the narrator’s past are so heavy handed that nothing comes as a surprise and at times I wondered why it was taking so long to get to the obvious conclusion. During the last hundred pages, I often wondered why the book was still going on, as most things seemed fairly wrapped up. Again, it was fine, not particularly bad, but not particularly good either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

cursedepub's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide

gloriazthompson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Death

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, and Pregnancy