Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Jade City by Fonda Lee

111 reviews

jakepasseri's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Amazing start to the series!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Kidnapping

Minor: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape

griffinthief's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Pedophilia, Kidnapping

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

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This book has a bit of a slow start, I won’t lie, but the character work and worldbuilding that’s established in the first 100 pages is an investment paid back in full with interest and gratuity—this is a story you feel like you are living in and a world that you could reach out and touch. It was a rollercoaster of highs and lows, twists and turns, and I can’t wait to see these characters and this setting in the next installment!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Racism, Death of parent

violetbblack's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

likeanecho's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape

sarah984's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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"She felt, strangely, that it all made sense in a perfect and terrible way. It only confirmed in her mind that the will of the gods was a conspiracy of many things; people laid the tracks of their fate yet were helpless at the same time. They’d all played their part in this—them and their enemies."

This book really just blew me away. It's a family saga, and a gangster novel, and a story about a formerly isolated nation forced to confront the wider world and figure out how to live alongside it. The world (especially the advantages and drawbacks of jade magic and how that is integrated) is fascinating, and all of the characters feel like real people. This book is long but not a single word feels wasted - everything that comes up even once matters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Gore, Xenophobia, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Mass/school shootings, War, Classism

thoughtsontomes's review against another edition

3.0

emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Didn’t love this as much as I hoped, but the writing is good and this was a lot of set up of all of the politics and character relationships that will impact the later books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pedophilia

doodeedoda's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Infidelity, Alcohol

heidipolkissa82's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Colonisation