Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

152 reviews

mariavdl's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

myhugelove's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Toxic friendship

Minor: Gaslighting

fairygodfish's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

It’s a book about suffering and choosing. I liked it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Vomit

bubblyfemme's review against another edition

dark 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

1.0

Honestly, I didn't get this book. It felt like genuine trauma porn and made me absolutely miserable. I couldn't see the point in the story apart from the idea that suffering is inevitable for some unlucky people. Perhaps I read the story wrong and missed the big point of it all, and that could very well be the case, but I would warn against this book if you are not in a good frame of mind or are triggered by any of the content warnings as they are taken to perversely creative extremes in many cases.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

cc24680's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Self harm, Blood, Excrement, and Toxic friendship

vera_nikolajevna's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual assault

lambclown's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicide, and Classism

Minor: Vomit and Medical trauma

robinks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Wow this book made me so uncomfortable. Heed the content warnings! There were some interesting philosophical questions brought up, and I like how Kawakami writes characters who are children. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Excrement, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

meganeorcx's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Heaven is written beautifully and on multiple pages, I wish I could grab a paragraph straight from the book and glue it onto my wall. The story felt messy at times but as it was fairly short, it didn't bother me too much. I was too drawn in by the absoluty painful bullying narrative and the range of conversations between the narrator and Kojima. A lot of moments in the book felt like a stab to the chest as they reminded me of my younger self and the growing dark tone of the book had me holding my breath, always expecting the worst. I have a love-hate relationship with the ending and I'm not sure how long it might take me to really make up my mind about it. But the overall book made me silent, tearing up a little, feeling stuck in my head, and it is pretty powerful how such a short novel can get me that way. Will definitely try another Kawakami book in the near future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism and Eating disorder

bisexual's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

middle schooler realness but in a sad way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Blood