Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

51 reviews

sarakas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

Touraine and Luca are compelling and deeply flawed main characters whose individual desires are antithetical to the feelings they are developing for one another. What happens when you’re on opposing sides of a conflict but you still want to save the other person? Lots of mess. Highly recommended for some good gay angst.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

vivavia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

fclancy93's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

A revolution
Of friends and of faith
Or of watching it all fall

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

alexalily's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Self harm, Excrement, and Vomit

kaschaller's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, and Vomit

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

thedanicaperson's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Slavery, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Racism, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Sexual assault and Death of parent

pwindmill's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I was recommended this book by several of my favourite authors, and it aligned with the types of fantasy I usually read, so I thought that I’d give it a go.

I enjoyed that the narrative challenged your assumptions about characters, often not revealing details about them until it became relevant. The world building felt very strong, perhaps because it was so heavily based on French colonisation in North Africa. Each character was interesting and unique.

Sometimes though, characters made terrible decisions that weren’t well justified, and felt like they did it just to push the story in the way the author wanted it to go, without much reasoning behind it, and for characters that are presented as clever, the lack of thought felt a bit out of character to me. Maybe it’s just that I didn’t pay close enough attention to between the lines though! I also felt that the middle third felt a little slow compared to the first and last thirds? 

This sounds more negative than I’d intended, I did enjoy The Unbroken, and will definitely be reading the sequel! Just I maybe won’t instantly pick it up for a re-read as often as I thought I would based on the recommendations that I heard.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Blood, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Sexual violence threat (repeatedly mentioned)

leaflit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

griffinthief's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism and Suicide

giuliaprim's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.0

I would've said that this book is a mess but nothing happens for 500 pages so

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism and Colonisation

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, and Excrement