Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Una Porta per Ogni Cuore by Seanan McGuire

72 reviews

ezwolf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Transphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying

anastasia_raf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

I truly liked this book! I found it fascinating to say the least. That book is what an original idea is, and I believe the execution of that idea was excellent.

It makes me wonder if it is a metaphorical way of presenting children scarred from familial expectations and traumatized by a parent's ambitions and ideas of a daughter, a son, a child.

Or if it bears the hope that imagination can be salvation to a child and to those prisoned in societal views and ways.

And still this book felt so magical, so surreal and yet so heavily rooted in reality.

I have so many thoughts about this book and so little to say. I decided that I'm going to let the book show you everything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Transphobia, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Acephobia/Arophobia, Gore, Death, Grief, Deadnaming, Child death, Child abuse, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Domestic abuse

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I feel like this story suffers from its short length, especially once shit gets serious and it seems like everyone is moving on way too fast.

Also, when this came out it was on every ace rep recommendation list. And I get it: The main character is ace and it's mentioned explicitly and this is (was?) a popular book.
But the ace rep in this seems contradictory at times? I don't really know what to make of it. One moment Nancy says it's important to draw a distinction between asexual and aromantic and that she has had boyfriends and has romantic feelings. But then in another scene she says she doesn't want to date anyone. The thing is, it's not like Nancy's experience couldn't be a real person's experience. Attraction is complex and confusing. To me, Nancy seems to be somewhere on the aromantic spectrum, but the narrative doesn't confirm that. It just feels underexplored and odd to me (as an asexual aro-spec person).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Murder, Animal cruelty, Gore, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Deadnaming, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Grief, and Kidnapping

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

Eye trauma

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Transphobia, and Acephobia/Arophobia

eligru's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Bullying, Dysphoria, Child death, Eating disorder, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship

katherineroseamber's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

2.75

Do you sometimes ask yourself if an author is mad? Well, that was the impression that this book left on me. I am honestly very confused and I do not know if it is the good or the bad kind. Maybe it is because I did not really get the moral of the story or I just did not pay enough attention. Either way, if you want to read a book where you end up asking yourself about what you actually read just now, this is the perfect book for you. Enjoy, or do not. 

Regards,
Katherine 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Dysphoria, Grief, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Transphobia

schnaucl's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

It was a little slow to get going, which makes sense since there had to be a lot of explanation about how things work but once it got going I really liked it.   I liked the characters and the various worlds, and of course, it's always interesting to think what my world might be (although since I can't think of one I'm afraid I'd end up at the other school).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

12nyoi's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

creo que tiene un concepto bastante interesante y que si hubiese sido escrito y desarrollado de diferente manera tal vez hubiera sido mejor. la escritura no es tan buena.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense 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

5.0

I went into this story completely blind and just chose this by the cover at the library and I am so, so happy I did. I am a huge fan of looking at the aftermath of tropes like "the chosen one" and "portal fantasies," and this book is just looking at trauma from kids who lived out the portal fantasies. It's weird and it's dark and there's murder and just glimpses of the weird, horrible and wonderful worlds that these kids travelled to. 

I don't think that this reads as YA, even if most of the characters are teens. Not that YA can't be brutal like so much in this book, but it reads more adult to me. Like, trigger warning for those who read this book, you're going to read about multiple children getting harmed, dying, and having their corpses mutilated during the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Body horror, Death, Grief, Violence, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Transphobia

Minor: Emotional abuse, Vomit, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

alite428's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Transphobia, Death, and Injury/Injury detail