Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace

9 reviews

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

obtoosegoose's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Medical content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

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

starccato's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Medical trauma

frantic_vampire's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

This book was brutal. It just kept hitting with everything that it had. There was hardly anytime to catch your breath. I had to put it down for a while because it just got way to intense and a little to real after watching the news coverage of Russia invading Ukraine.

I really liked Mal as a main character. She’s a kind of antisocial gamer/streamer who cusses a lot and I love that about her. Mal was just so real, I loved her ability to simultaneously be flipping out about everything that’s happening and not giving a single fuck about fucking shit up as much as possible for the corporation. 

As brutal as this book was, it doesn’t even begin to compare to the ending. I understand why it had to happen that way, but damn if I didn’t want things to go another way. And as much as I wanted that ending to be different, it was still really satisfying and open ended enough that I could almost see what would happen next if this was a series. All in all this was a fantastic read and I’m giving this a four out of five stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, War, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Gaslighting, and Torture

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, and Terminal illness