Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Afterlove by Tanya Byrne

17 reviews

martereadsbooks's review against another edition

funny hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Suicide

williamabookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, Death, Lesbophobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Blood, Cancer, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Car accident

Moderate: Grief, Child death, and Blood

Minor: Cursing, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Cancer, Classism, Abandonment, Addiction, and Religious bigotry

amazelan's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.0

ça m'a pas plu, et en vrai jsuis un peu déçu que ça m'ait pas plu. surtout, j'arrive pas à trouver de points positifs à ce livre hormis la représentation diverse.
j'ai trouvé l'écriture banale, vraiment pas incroyable. en fait c'est très YA dans le sens cliché du terme, même si j'arriverais pas à exprimer précisément pourquoi. 
et surtout, surtout, la romance m'a fait ni chaud ni froid. c'est trop rapide, irréaliste, et si niais?? trop pour moi en tout cas. le fait que ça soit l'élément central du livre explique pourquoi je l'ai si peu aimé. en +, les personnages sont complètement définies par la romance, j'ai pas réussi à m'y attacher ou à ressentir quoique ce soit quand il leur arrivait des trucs. et du coup les personnages secondaires sont pas du tout creusé.es, ce qui est carrément dommage vu qu'au moins elleux auraient pas été défini.es par l'amour. 
c'est dommage parce que le début vend du suspense, un univers intéressant. mais au final l'univers est pas du tout exploré, on apprend rien dessus. et après le début on doit attendre 100 pages (sur 289 pour l'ebook) pour qu'il y ait un tout petit peu d'action. couvert, toujours, sous le rose bonbon de la romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Death, Blood, Car accident, and Violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Suicide and Terminal illness

irisvdn's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? No

5.0

Holy fucking shit
This book is so good, I'm literally still crying. Tanya really knows how to make us love each character in the book, and I felt every emotion I was supposed to feel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug abuse

anniereads221's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

3.0

Could have done without the throwaway transphobic line

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Car accident, Body horror, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Transphobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Suicide

thelongautumn's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Car accident

Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Lesbophobia

caseythereader's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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? No

3.75

Thanks to Macmillan Books for the free advance copy of this book.

 - AFTERLOVE is, somehow, the Kill Your Gays book I didn't know I needed.
- Ash and Poppy's love story burns fast and bright, and knowing from the first page that Ash was going to die makes it both worse and better.
- I kind of wish this was an adult novel instead of YA so the world and logistics of the reaper system could have been rounded out more. However, the intensity of teenage feelings was perfect for this short and painfully sweet story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Vomit, Child death, Death, Grief, and Car accident

Minor: Sexual content

jazminnnnnnn's review

challenging hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Homophobia, and Death

Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Islamophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Murder, Transphobia, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

karapillar's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

This book left me aching. I never wanted it to end. I smiled through so much of it, and I cried real tears more than once. The writing is unique but not annoying, and the story is tragically beautiful. The only complaint I have is that I didn’t read it earlier.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Vomit, Blood, Bullying, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, Animal death, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism, Terminal illness, and Suicide