Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Vox by Christina Dalcher

14 reviews

lynniebeep's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.25

Interesting and timely concept.

I would have liked to have seen more of how society functioned with the word limit. It is dropped for the main character very quickly. 

Vague spoilers:

The protagonist goes back and forth on finding the men in her life evil or weak when they are both but I guess taking a solid stance would make their barely earned redemptions harder to accept.
Really disliked the waving away of the son's actions.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

magnifyingreader's review

challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.75

A quick, gripping read that’s a challenging portrait of a not-to outlandish dystopian future. I felt for all of the buildup the ending felt a bit rushed but overall it was a great read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

anna_2022's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The premise and plot of this book is very clever, but the actual execution of it just missed something for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

helfire124's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

indecisivelucy's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-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? No

3.75

Very handmaids tale esque 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexism and Injury/Injury detail

nahal3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Torture, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I love when a book makes me think and makes me feel something. That’s what this book is, it shows you the short path between women’s rights being slowly taken away until we are eventually silenced. I know it’s a dystopian book and it might be seen as silly to take it that seriously but it hits pretty close to home if you are paying attention to your surroundings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

halfpennywren's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I felt this was an interesting concept, but poorly explored. The science was a little far fetched and the ending felt very chaotic and unclear at times. 

I was also keen to see how the story would develop in terms of deradicalising a family member from a harmful ideology but this never materialised and it was just assumed the character changed their whole world view overnight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore and Infidelity

delta1juliet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A true horror novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Vomit, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Abortion, and War

tlholmes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail