Reviews tagging 'Death'

Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

19 reviews

emakay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Violence, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

geny444'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I came to read this after reading to sleep in a sea of stars. If you compare this book to hid other work, this will let you down. While not bad, this reads more like a short story about the daily life of a scientific crew. Interesting at times, but not thrilling.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Suicidal thoughts

bean_7088's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Would make an excellent Sci-fi episode. 

Oof this was a hard one. I think I really wasn't in the mood for it? I could tell I would like it, but I had to keep pausing and going back and was distracted a lot.. which really ruins the tension. 

I feel like if Sleep in a sea of stars was ever adapted into a show, this would make a really great episode or parallel B plot kind of thing. 

I also realized that I don't much like the enhanced audio thing much? Aaaand Paolini is fond of Apenicies and whatever and they are torture in audio book. Not as bad at texting chats, but they suck. The whole last hour was just that. 

Anyways, I didn't rate it because I didn't know what to do with it. I liked it, but my listening habits ruined it? So 
Edit:jk, I hated seeing it without a rating. So I just gave it something appropriate for now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Death

Spoilers

it's a falling apart space expedition with alien tech that makes them go a little loose in the head, throw in some angry crew and you also get murder! Whoo!

that_boi_eliza's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Violence, and Self harm

Minor: Vomit and Gun violence

daniparvu's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

2.0

I have far too many unanswered questions finishing this book. Some are okay; some are even necessary... but most of them, in this case, should've been answered. This book is very bleak and somehow also not as emotional as it could've been so it left me feeling dazed and confused. I'm sure someone will love it, but it's not for me. That said, based on reading other reviews, I recommend listening to the audiobook of this one rather than reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Drug use and Violence

lazyowl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I went into this book initially not realising it was part of an existing series. This precedes To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, which I've obviously not read. However I did not get the sense I was missing any key information and there wasn't anything that did not make sense.

We find out very early on that the MC is grappling with the death of someone. Although this is set-up as a story about searching for sentient lifeforms, I felt this was more about the struggle to find hope and the will to carry on in the wake of loss. It confronts the heartache of regret, words said and unsaid, all the things we can no longer put right once someone is gone. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Death

I did not find the ending satisfying, as it left so much unsaid and unresolved. Perhaps part of this resolution comes with the next book in the series. It has left me feeling a bit empty and bereft and this may have something to do with my own head space right now.

ne0n_ange1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Death

smoakwithwifi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Grief

Moderate: Death, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

spec_tacles's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood