Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

174 reviews

annamorgan27's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

allylujah's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

An incredibly visceral experience

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Kidnapping

Minor: Miscarriage

nerdysread's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I listened to this one, and I'm not a native English speaker, so it was a bit hard to understand, and It sometimes took me out of the story. But the story is still good. I will read other books from this author but a digital copy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Fire/Fire injury

tey_lynn's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy

baileymalaylee's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

joey_estrada's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The writing is very poetic and descriptive. Even though the writing is sometimes complex, it was easy to understand the world and what was happening.

I was captivated early on and find the story to be interesting and well paced.

Morals are not black and white in this story, but they are still present.

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Torture, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

jiie's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

jadeyfish's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Typically I don’t like books that have highly complex vocab, but I didn’t mind it here. You get thrown into the story right away and you don’t really understand what’s going on, kind of like a dream. Those two aspects combined made for a fun and challenging reading experience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical trauma

sn8man's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Animal death

tracilynn33's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.5

Unnecessarily gory. I understand that that was the point but ugh.

I stopped looking up words I didn't know at about page 20. This is what your English teacher means when they say you need strong vocabulary: words that confuse the readers and could have been other words that meant the same thing. Reminds me is studying for the SAT.

How many times do you need to describe laughter?

The main character is unnecessary. The plague doctor is the main character. How was this romance?

ugh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail