Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

77 reviews

clairebartholomew549's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny inspiring reflective 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: Yes

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I've been hearing about this book forever, and I'm so glad I finally got to it. It's hard to describe it - it's a combination workplace comedy, love story, time travel adventure, and spy thriller - but it's great fun all the way through. The narrator tells us early on not to get too wrapped up in trying to figure out the logistics of the time travel situation, and that's helpful so you just go along for the ride. The characters are hilarious and full of pathos, and our main character is deeply flawed and yet deeply lovable. This book takes on colonialism, state-sponsored violence, believing you are part of the solution when instead you are integral to the problem itself, forcing your ideas of how people should be on them, what history really means, and if it's possible to actually make a difference. It does all things while being very funny, endearing, and compulsively readable. I loved this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, War

Minor: Sexual harassment

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Death of parent

raptorq's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Murder, Colonisation

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Slavery, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Alcohol, War, Pandemic/Epidemic

lenouveau17's review against another edition

2.25

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism

Minor: Animal death, Suicide

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing 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: Yes

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This book manages to be somehow incredibly fluffy and comforting, and yet intensely sharp and challenging at the same time. Bradley uses the notion of time travel to hold up a mirror to institutions, cycles, complacency, and identity, maintaining an endearing sense of humor and a shocking degree of behavioral awareness throughout. With a debut this strong, I will certainly be keeping an eye on her work to come!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Slavery, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Colonisation

mediocrebest's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation

jennramsdell's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

sydapel's review against another edition

2.0

dark hopeful tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Came for the witty romance and time travel, left with an overwhelming sense of dread about the climate crisis. If that's something that keeps you up at night, I cannot recommend this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, Violence

Minor: Cannibalism

wanderingwonderbread's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail

gbeene's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I generally enjoyed the story as a whole; however, the last 20% of the story, truly the plot-dense portion of the novel, was incredibly rushed. The verbiage was somewhat pedantic (even considering that characters were from different centuries with different language). The novel would’ve been better had it not tried to touch on so many genres. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail