Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Promise by Damon Galgut

7 reviews

julia_rose's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

The most 5 star book I’ve ever 5-starred. This is a very special book. Exquisite prose without being pretentious. Complex characters you love and hate (except Amor and Salome who are angels) who evolve masterfully. Extremely visual, it’s rare that a book transports me to another world. Emotional but not corny and still has the odd light-hearted moment which is hard to inject into such a dark story.

I appreciated how Lukas still scolded Amor at the end so it didn’t become just another “white saviour book.

Seamlessly floated between all the characters’ heads, expert narration. Just beautiful. A beautiful beautiful book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death of parent, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Gun violence, Infertility, Death, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism

manonh90's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? Yes

1.0

I... didn't like this book. The writing style (jumping between perspectives even within sentences, the lack of quotation marks... ) really annoyed me and the story wasn't my cup of tea either: small-minded, unlikable people I couldn't care less about, who somehow reflect historical societal issues. Would have DNF'ed if I hadn't been reading it for book club. I'm also beginning to realise capital L-literary fiction might not be for me, not the Booker Prize winners in any case. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Addiction, War, Medical content, Suicide, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Dementia, Eating disorder, and Vomit

Minor: Self harm and Sexual content

qqjj's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcoholism

sib_reads's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Death, Eating disorder, Excrement, Gun violence, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Blood, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Minor: Dementia, Self harm, and Sexual content

katie_elmer_english's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Racism

Moderate: Hate crime, Murder, Body shaming, and Injury/Injury detail

amyford's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Cancer, Violence, Gun violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Eating disorder, and Classism

ladymirtazapine's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

The ideas were much better than the execution. The first chapter, a quarter of the book, was barely readable, the second was brilliant, the other two were fine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Vomit, Violence, Terminal illness, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Racism, Murder, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Infertility, Gun violence, Grief, Excrement, Eating disorder, Dementia, Death of parent, Confinement, Cancer, Antisemitism, Alcoholism, and Alcohol