Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

91 reviews

greatu's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abandonment and Addiction

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Stalking

em8ly's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Entertaining for sure, but certainly depressing at parts. If not for being a fast paced read, I am not sure it would have been so easy for me ingest.

Happy for the happy ending though of course.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Infidelity, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

emhunsber's review

challenging dark hopeful fast-paced

• 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

Haig writes into words the despair of depression, followed by the persistence of hope, all with a main character whose wit and humor shows through even at her most despairing. In his philosophical approach to finding a will to live, Haig does not fall prey to the quick fix cure of "just try to be happy," but instead walks a delicate line of balancing situational depression and mindful changes in perspective.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Self harm, and Stalking

kbairbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I need my therapist to read this book. Immediately. This was such a wild ride! I feel… so many things. I’m rather speechless honestly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, and Infidelity

amylzirklern's review

reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Brilliant

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Too straightforwardly corny for me and emotionally manipulative the way it

kills people off in the AUs via butterfly effect.

But the short chapters are like crack for my bad attention span brain, I'll give it that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Infidelity

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, and Pregnancy

kathryn1776's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Cancer and Fire/Fire injury

stories's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Car accident

mirandavictoria's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The opening sentence was gripping and I was engaged from start to finish. As such, I think this is the perfect book to get anyone out of a reading slump. In my opinion, the pacing was perfect with just the right amount of description. The prose was quite beautiful, and overall, the story had a nice message. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Animal death, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, and Vomit

anger566's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Animal death, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit