Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

10 reviews

breaklikeafish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, and War

Moderate: Bullying

welp_seeyalater's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Vomit and Rape

friendly_neighborhood_grandma's review against another edition

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

3.75

I listened to this as an audiobook. It is the kind of book the I loved the more further i got in the book. it is very unique and interesting in it's structure. I would recommend to people who like historical fiction, future past and "present" masterfully intertwined. it is a nice read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Ableism, Colonisation, Misogyny, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, War, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Self harm, and Miscarriage

monroebays's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring sad 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

A book about finding hope in the darkest circumstances. Loveable characters, historical fiction and speculative fiction living side-by-side. You will laugh, you will cry, you will google politics of 15th century Constantinople. You need to read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Homophobia, War, and Vomit

Minor: Torture and Xenophobia

miastegner's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

took me a while to feel oriented in the story but once I was familiar with all the characters & the timeline it got way more engaging!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Violence, Gun violence, and War

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide, Vomit, Pregnancy, Slavery, Bullying, and Excrement

youreawizardjerry's review

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

SO engaging and entertaining! A journey that keeps you guessing and invested. Tension-building in this thang was masterful, but the beats intended to be most dramatic/tense/climactic did not have that satisfying punch I expected them to (Nay, needed them to!). Also unfortunately, the ending didn't hit for me at all :( I still had an enjoyable time with it, but can't say I loved it after finishing. Still, strong writing + fun ride keeps it in the 4 stars for me^^

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, and Vomit

telemesmerism's review against another edition

adventurous

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Ableism, War, Animal death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Slavery

bibliocinephile's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

OH MY GOD. like always, his style is just so. fucking. good. it's rich and deep and his word choice is SO unique and beautiful. however it sometimes is useless, all in all i think he distracts too much from his own story sometimes by describing in a bit too much detail. HOWEVER. stunning. concerning. riveting. people complain it's too long but the flow is good enough that it passes quickly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit

wrackcity's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Grief

Minor: Abandonment, Mental illness, Vomit, Homophobia, Torture, Gun violence, and Death of parent

outtoexist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

I read this book for the StoryGraph genre challenge, which I love. This is the ONLY book StoryGraph gave me that matched all of my most commonly read features - probably because I read quite a variety and so my common features are a bit random. The beginning was rough for me, that is all that keeps this from being five stars - books that have multiple different storylines are intimidating to me. However, I ended up treating it like a series of short stories, so I was shocked when I got to the end and was GENUINELY, DEEPLY invested in how the stories came together. It was a beautiful love story to the power of books & libraries & stories, all of my favorite things in a book!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Vomit