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helfire124's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Suicide, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Dementia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
martinj's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Medical content, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Suicide
Minor: Alcoholism
ashleylynn's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Death
bella_cavicchi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Death, Pregnancy, and Suicide
Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Abandonment
Minor: Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Violence
emudds's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
quotes i likeeeeeed:
--lonely fights are the worst, she said. she'd rather lose a lonely fight. she'd rather join a losing team than win a lonely fight.
--know you are loved. know you are strong. remember these words. 'they can kill me, but they can't scare me.'
--if you lose your mind can you find your mind again? of course you can. that's life!
--people like to separate his plays into tragedies and comedies... aren't they all one and the same? so, king lear fails to connect with what's important in life and loses his mind.. who hasn't? there's comedy in that, don't kid yourself.
--to be alive means full body contact with the absurd. still, we can be happy, even poor old sisyphus could figure out that much.
--we need tragedy, which is the need to love and the need... not just the need, the imperative, the human imperative... to experience joy. to find joy and to create joy. all through the night. the fight night. (wow guys he said it he said the line)
--grandma told me fighting can be making peace. she said sometimes we move forward by looking back and sometimes the onward can be knowing when to stop.
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, and Pregnancy
krys_kilz's review against another edition
- 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
"To be alive means to have full body contact with the absurd."
Graphic: Medical content, Death, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Suicide and Mental illness
Minor: Excrement, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
emniluk's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Pregnancy and Medical content
Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts
spaghettireads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Fight Night is centred around the relationship between Swiv (the 9 year old narrator) and her grandmother. Please don’t let the child narrator turn you off from the book, because I really feel like it’s done well here. The narration feels a bit chaotic at first, but you settle into it, and at the end you feel like you are in on the characters’ inside jokes.
There were so many points in this book that had me laughing out loud, and also points that had me in tears. I loved the references to Toronto, and specifically Toronto sports team fandom.
I felt like sometimes the format of the book being a letter got a bit lost, however I loved the rest of the book so much that I’m willfully passing over that.
I would highly recommend, and I’m happy to see it shortlisted for the Giller this year!
Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Suicide
emilygigs's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy
Moderate: Suicide, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Medical content, and Cursing
Minor: Injury/Injury detail