Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

13 reviews

batcaves's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Confinement, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Child death, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Drug abuse, and Kidnapping

lady_bountiful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

phantomgecko's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

An ending just ambiguous enough to really make the novel great. Are the questions really answered or  ???

idk, this was an interesting read. Long, but it wouldn't have been as satisfying shorter. I saw someone put this on a list of books they weren't smart enough to read, and I kinda get why. There're layers here, but it's enjoyable even at a high level.

Characters annoyed me at first, but they grew on me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Terminal illness

kristareads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Transphobia, Misogyny, and Racism

Moderate: Child death and Sexual assault

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Fire/Fire injury

nostoat's review against another edition

3.0

Here's the thing. I don't think this book was good but it was extremely compelling, and the elements of mixed media were fun. However. The main character is weirdly misogynistic, considering this book was written by a woman as far as I can tell, and there's also casual racism sprinkled throughout. The narrative voice wasn't off-putting enough that I DNF'd but it did have me constantly looking at the back flap to be SURE it wasn't written by a man because of the constant misogyny. And the way the book flirted with "the inherent madness of genius" and all of that bullshit. It was compelling though....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Terminal illness

judassilver's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Transphobia, Misogyny, Death, Alcohol, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Ableism, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Racism, Addiction, and Stalking

Minor: Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, and Trafficking

philomathean's review against another edition

challenging mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Terminal illness, Transphobia, and Cancer

ro_lux's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body horror, Gore, Suicide, and Transphobia

Moderate: Cancer, Fatphobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Alcohol, Car accident, Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Confinement, Violence, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Racism

limina's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I LOVED this book. It reminded me of many others, but especially Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. I was totally engrossed. Fun Fact- there's bonus material on the author's website. At the end of the book it mentions an app but it appears to be defunct. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide

Moderate: Death, Forced institutionalization, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, Transphobia, and Sexual assault

treereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Suicide

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer