Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Le confessioni di Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

6 reviews

velvet_young's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Racial slurs, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Medical content, and Medical trauma

summerfireflies's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Addiction, Colonisation, Suicide, Racism, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Death, Grief, Incest, and Confinement

becca9849's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Addiction, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Abortion, Suicide, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, and Rape

eli_jw's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Addiction, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Death, Murder, Racial slurs, Torture, Drug abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Abortion, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Incest

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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

4.0

A very well-researched unfolding story. Maybe the writing style wasn't quite my favorite. But great for reflecting on parallels between the anti-slavery movement Brits of then and the the Black-square-posters of today - both finding social justice trendy, but not really looking to commit to actionable change.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Addiction, Medical content, Racism, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Slavery, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pregnancy, Blood, Classism, Miscarriage, Murder, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Grief, Infertility, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty and Child death

If reading about babies and birth upsets you in any way, this book may not be for you.

msradiosilence's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad 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

5.0

This book was really hard to read, and not because of it’s content, but because I wanted so badly for Frances to get her happy ending. But that’s not the kind of story this is, and it never promised to be.

By all accounts, Frances’ story is a tragedy, and not necessarily of her own making. She’s a strong woman prone to making choices everyone warns her against, but their her choices to make. She did the best she could in her situations, even if the best was something truly horrific.

There can be some interesting speculation on whether Frances is a reliable narrator or not, considering the story is from her point of view, but I think a woman

sentenced to death

has nothing to lose. Why would she garnish the truth?

Anyway, as much as it hurt me, I did really enjoy the book. One of the only 5 star reads from 2021.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit