Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

19 reviews

eeculp's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Quick fun read! Like a lot of these, I figured out most of it but there is one final surprise at the very end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Self harm, Pedophilia, Rape, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

shiran_fa's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Child death

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Car accident, Chronic illness, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Incest, Grief, Infidelity, and Medical content

nicoles_reading_corner's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Infertility, and Kidnapping

heatherfielding's review against another edition

dark

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Death, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

youcancallmefi's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I really struggled to make sense of what was going in and didn't relate to any of the characters. the story became so confused as at some point I wasn't sure if the initial death was the main point of the story anymore. Just kept reading to make sure my suspicions of the murder were correct.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Murder

kerrygetsliterary's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Miscarriage, Rape, and Sexual assault

yo_tdo's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Animal death

vzrivera's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Dark. Thrilling. Suspenseful. Creepy. A few twist and turns thrown in. There's so many moving parts to this story. It was difficult to keep track of the various perspectives. The story focused on 10 women, 4 of which narrate. Plus there's a novel and a memoir that runs parallel to the story. How the author kept track of it all is beyond me. I had to get the eBook just to back track. Which was actually very helpful because the book includes a map which of course you don't get with the audiobook. The map was very helpful. I'm very impress by the authors writing abilities. I can see this book being turned into a movie someday. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Dementia, and Incest

beccic's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I really enjoyed the way these characters lives all interlinked but this one just wasn’t really for me. Don’t get me wrong there are a lot of people I would still recommend it too. The writing is good, but I just couldn’t connect with the characters, and so wasn’t really chomping at the bit to find out who killed Daniel and why they did it. I found this one a bit predictable and I could see all the plot twists coming so there was no surprise element in this for me… and I loved a good surprise or shock ending especially in thrillers. 

I would still say this is a good book, unfortunately is was just a bit meh for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty