Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Una Porta per Ogni Cuore by Seanan McGuire

76 reviews

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, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

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

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, Death, Transphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

vigil's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

this book was weird, earnest, and slightly hamfisted. on some level it read a bit like a fanfic, especially in regards to the dialogue. i don’t think it’s marketed as young adult but it’s pretty YA. however its a fast read, and i enjoyed myself enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

amyspag's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

oliverreeds's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.75

really good. why wasn’t it longer. i liked it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Gore, Transphobia, Blood, Grief, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

mswarning's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25 for the first read, 5 for the second.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Confinement and Eating disorder

egernand's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I feel like this story should have been more reflective, but wasn't given time to breathe due to the plot barging in. I don't feel that the plot added much, and prevented the character exploration or some of the setting exploration I wish would have taken place. Also, it was jarring and characters' roles/reactions to it damaged my suspension of disbelief. I liked the initial ideas of this story, but was unsatisfied by the direction it went.

The story is about children who had adventures in other worlds, and have now returned to the normal world and have to figure out how to cope. I thought that would be the focus of the book, and that it would explore things like the drastically different scope of what's important, coming from magical/extremely other worlds where you might die, or are saving the world, or are stuck as a servant, etc, returning to a world where you're just expected to do well in school, act nice to other children, behave for your family, etc. The plot overrode any deep exploration of that position these people find themselves in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, Gore, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

Minor: Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Death of parent

Graphic dismemberment

laurajones's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, and Dysphoria