Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

35 reviews

sarah_speaks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Gun violence, Confinement, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual content

jessicabobessica's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Alcohol

Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

thatsssorachael's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Confinement, Medical content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Pregnancy

cyndi1966's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Confinement

matcha_cat'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Alcohol, Blood, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Murder

lpdx's review

adventurous dark 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Suicide, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Confinement, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Torture

Minor: Infidelity

adamsbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

I am very conflicted on how to rate this book. I enjoyed the overall plot and the ending was so strong. My biggest problem was the middle of the book (Parts 2&3). They felt so stagnant and nothing interesting was really happening. I found myself zoning out quite a bit.

 However I did enjoy the story. I thought the Pastoral plot point was a cool concept, I just was so intrigued by the first part that I was waiting for the stories to connect so we could get back on track. it truly did feel like two separate stories that were pushed together.

I am aware now that we follow Maggie and Travis as they are brainwashed into becoming Cala and Theo. I am rating this novel based on notes I took while reading. Even though I enjoyed how the two stories came together I still spent over half the novel confused on what's happening.

 

Overall maybe I'm too harsh on this book, but I have been on the waitlist since June 2022 at the library. I feel like the hype around this book lead to me being slightly disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, Gun violence, and Torture

blissofalife's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I spent most of the book confused, and the twists and explanations felt like a reach but a very original plot and like-able main characters. “The Village (2004)” vibes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Confinement, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, and Body horror

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Torture, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

amplawrence's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

cursed_sapphire's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

This book kept me guessing around every turn, keeping me on the edge of my seat. At first a bit confusing, as it starts off with an event and a character that doesn't seem to fit into the rest of the narrative, but as the mysteries slowly unfold, the beginning is only made better. This book was well crafted in a way that I haven't experienced in a while-- where the twists were both surprising yet made complete sense, and tempting me to read the whole book again with my newly-gained perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence and Suicidal thoughts