Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Schoolhouse by Sophie Ward

6 reviews

theunfinishedbookshelf's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

delinxw's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Idk. The story was fine, it took me a while to really get into it. The ending felt unsatisfying. I have read and still read multiple books with different pov chapters, but this just didn’t do it for me. I clearly had a favorite pov (writing style mainly), which made it hard to get through; as I was kind of just hoping to get to one of those chapters after finishing the one before😂

Lots of trigger warnings for this book though. I annotate all my books and my most used tabs are for “disgusted” and “shock”. I’ve tried to fill in the content warnings as best as I could. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Sexual assault, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, and Lesbophobia

booksandbabble's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Rape, and Murder

Minor: Animal death and Adult/minor relationship

lilalhreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, and Stalking

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

mysterymom40's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Moderate: Ableism, Stalking, Torture, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

Minor: Pregnancy

repeated flashbacks of grooming; disturbing scenes of older kids bullying younger students; educators not being responsible caregivers towards children in their care; one incident of an agitated horse (induced by a human) , crushing the bones of a boy;

rossrevenge's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

I was hoping for something more focused on the experimental school, but this is more like a straightforward police procedural and the interesting themes are left undeveloped in favour of following a whodunnit about two missing children, which itself doesn't have a very satisfying conclusion. The book is too short to support so many side characters so you never get to know any of them that well; there's no obvious motive behind a lot of their actions other than, 'this is how a Bad Person acts,' or, 'this is how a Cop acts'. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Death, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence