Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Miasto w chmurach by Anthony Doerr

109 reviews

lydderbox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective slow-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: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bananagram210's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

elisacarlene's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and War

Minor: Dementia and Death of parent

milamaassa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

Okay, Doerr’s tone is definitely one of my favorites. Have to give it to the Finnish translator, the tone has remained close to the original. 

I loved this book. And I want to read it again. But I can’t give it full 5 stars. Sometimes this book was just too hard to grab, probably because the copy I read was 700 pages. As soon as I started reading though, it totally caught me. Usually. The last fourth was definitely the best of the story, oh how the plots were plotting. Actually, I would have probably enjoyed the story more if at least 200 pages were cut and added some padding to the end. It would have been nice to get the full aftermath. 

Overall, extremely beautiful and somehow comforting story, captivating characters and interesting, heartbreaking storylines. Just give me more of ever after and less of embroidery and mrs. Boydstun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Minor: Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, and War

heidi_thompson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, and War

Minor: Violence and Xenophobia

amm0029's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and War

reshelman's review against another edition

hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

_wilhelmine_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: War

Minor: Animal death, Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Abandonment

h4ppycupcake's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

“Stranger, whoever you are, open this to find what will amaze you.”

A heart breaking, heart warming look at how small we as humans are, and yet we are still deeply, unfailingly interconnected. I hope that as both the beauty and the horror of this world, humanity continues. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

iszys's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Wow I loved this book so much. It's definitely one of my favorites now. It didn't feel like a chore to read any of the 620 pages. The chapters were short, making it really easy to fly through. Sometimes I felt that I wanted to spend more time with the characters, but the continuous stopping and starting had me on the edge of my seat and made me want to keep reading. It's sci-fi, it's historical fiction, it's a Greek comedy, it's an environmentalist tale, it's a novel about the human desire to tell and preserve stories, and it's a book with a lot of bird imagery. What's not to love?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and War