Reviews tagging 'War'

Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace

14 reviews

aggressive_nostalgia's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Police brutality

Moderate: Torture and War

Minor: Sexual assault

milliemudd's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

darwin's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Goddamn, this book was good. Slow start picks up halfway through and doesn't stop running.  I found this book exceptionally hard to put down once it started rolling. 

While reading, there were times when I found the world-building a little messy, but it all came together very well in the end. Turns out the inconsistency was the point!

The characters and their relationships, though, are where this book shines. The plot is engaging, absolutely, but the characters propelling it forward are what made it so hard to put down. The story matters because the people in it matter, an approach the book itself is well aware of and even leans into at times. 

My final thought is that even though this book can be read as a stand-alone, I think it's much stronger for being a prequel to Archivist Wasp and Latchkey. It was so satisfying to watch all the pieces click together and get another angle at 06 and 22. If 22 was your favorite part of this book and you haven't yet, do yourself a favor and read Archivist Wasp.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, War, Violence, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Alcohol and Suicidal thoughts

metaphorsandmisc's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Child death, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Moderate: War, Death of parent, and Cursing

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Domestic abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Slavery, Police brutality, Death of parent, Cursing, Child abuse, Blood, Abandonment, Vomit, Torture, Kidnapping, War, Violence, Suicide, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Child death, Body horror, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Car accident

ktopreads's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

absolutely devastating story but it had a monster tight grip on me for the last 4 hours to finish it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, War, Kidnapping, and Torture

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Grief, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Murder, Torture, and War

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rebyreadsandwrites's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, War, Alcohol, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Cursing, Body horror, Death of parent, and Confinement

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Excrement and Torture

embee3's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Child death, Child abuse, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Torture, Police brutality, Death, Death of parent, and Body horror

achillea's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

edit (2nd read): feel like i'm being flayed alive by this book. twice already
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you know that feeling when your back is really stiff but you don't know just how stiff until you get a massage and they crack your spine and it sounds like someone stepped on a bag of cornflakes. reading this book felt like that

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, War, and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Gun violence, Medical content, Child death, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Police brutality