Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

10 reviews

itsmeautievee's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

I really enjoy the authors work on The Magnus Archives, which in my opinion is a faster pace than this book. 

The story is good and maybe it was the audio performances that made it difficult for me to listen to. 

I enjoyed the story as an Allegory. I don't know that I'd read it again but I did enjoy it and I would recommend it to others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Cannibalism, and Classism

Moderate: Violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Chronic illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Physical abuse, and Deadnaming

Does contains scenes depicting children experiencing distress

gagereadsstuff's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Murder, Death, Addiction, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Child death, and Colonisation

nodustollens's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Police brutality, Blood, Murder, Body horror, and Classism

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, and Cannibalism

Minor: Deadnaming and Deportation

vstarlight's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Cursing, and Panic attacks/disorders

phantompansy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gore, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Confinement, Mental illness, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Addiction

ladyinverse's review

dark mysterious 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

5.0

this book was a slow start but as more mystery piled in, the more intriguing it was. the end was horrifying, constructed beautifully and was very satisfying. 10/10, will be mildly traumatized for the rest of the day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Cannibalism, and Murder

Minor: Medical content, Grief, and Kidnapping

songofthewolfy's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Excellent debut novel by Jonathan Sims! I loved The Magnus Archives, and thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I did feel that the end went a little fast for how much of a build-up there was to the climax. But I found it very enjoyable, and can't wait for more from him!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Murder, Police brutality, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Classism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Colonisation, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, and Cannibalism

Sims uses the listed content warnings to deliver a scathing critique of society. However, he does not shy away from depictions of mental illness, gore, and trauma. Please use discretion.

dogearedbooks's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Addiction, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Violence, Cannibalism, and Grief

doubledevour's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Death, Classism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Cannibalism, Body horror, Vomit, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Colonisation

Minor: Police brutality and Transphobia

amyspag's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

I almost DNFd this book twice, it wasn't what I expected at all from the synopsis. I'm still not 100% on the rating because I keep flip flopping between this being fairly slow and hard to get into and it intriguing me. This book is quite gory at times and as I was expecting a standard thriller this took me by suprise, it's way more of a horror. I think horror fans would eat this up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Cursing, Cannibalism, and Blood