Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

7 reviews

ehunsy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

If you are looking for a book like The Book Thief, you may not like this one as much. it's beautiful in a completely different , yet still poetical way. The timeline jumps around quite a bit, which may be confusing but creates the feeling that this is truly being told as the narrator reflects on different events throughout life

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

corvicore's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

The boomerang storytelling got a little infuriating at times but overall it slaps

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Blood, Cursing, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Terminal illness

your_true_shelf's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book!! I love those Dunbar boys and I feel like I know them all.  Clay will remain in my heart. 
Big TW for death of a parent which underpins the whole story. 
A big beautiful story set vividly in Austrialia, with the characteristic writing style of Markus Zusak. He has produced another masterpiece. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Child death

readwithchar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Violence

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

As much as I love Zusak, this book just wouldn't end. The main plot was confusing and the B plot was out of order and dragged on about details that didn't matter. Maybe it's a good read to someone else, but it wore me down to finish.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

annabella's review against another edition

Personally just couldn’t get into the style of writing , confused me as found it hard to concentrate and was slow

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence

manarnia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I think I might have liked this book more if I had read a physical version. Not that the audiobook was poorly narrated, I just think I would have enjoyed seeing the writing written down. 

I fell in love with the Dunbar boys, but certain parts of the story didn't sit right with me, and I didn't love the order in which the story was told. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, and Violence