Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley

6 reviews

clemmiem's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Classism, Death, Grief, Gore, Mental illness, War, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Racism

Minor: Abortion and Police brutality

netthauser's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

5.0

A beautiful tragedy. Headley's prose is poetic and one needs only a passing familiarity with Beowulf and US suburbia to enjoy this novel. The unique world of each character is sublimy conveyed in their respective chapters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Moderate: Classism, Death, and Blood

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Infidelity, Body horror, Classism, Blood, Gore, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, and Cursing

carolined314's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

This has such beautiful crystalline writing, on such a tragic tale 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Gore, Body horror, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Emotional abuse

chwinters's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

more magical realism than i thought there would be (read: i did not know there would be any magical realism), which threw me for a loop. however, this is well written and incorporates a lot of scholarship about grendel & his mother into the story. 

if you’re interested in the topic or themes, it’s well worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Drug use

re: content warnings, the main character is a veteran with severe PTSD and experienced captivity in what is implied to be the iraq war. most of the content warnings concern her dealing with her experiences.

octopus_farmer's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

She really scrambled it up, but in a compelling way. It’s extremely dream-like. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, Animal death, Stalking, Police brutality, Infidelity, Eating disorder, and Confinement

Minor: Addiction