Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

109 reviews

thecrimsoncorsair's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I would give the book a much higher rating, but Hank Green managed to write one of the worst protagonists I've ever come across. Fuck, April May is just awful. I was rooting for her death from beginning to end of this damn book. She's just a pure scumbag to everyone around her. Annoying. Selfish, narcissist who was still worrying about views in the midst of dying!! Her character alone brought the entire book down. Had it been written from the perspective of literally any other character the book would have garnered a much higher rating. But as it is... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Xenophobia, Biphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Outing, Violence, and Toxic relationship

quackquackbich's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Violence, Addiction, Xenophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

shoohoob's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Misogyny, Gun violence, Blood, Cursing, Confinement, and Body horror

cleot's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Xenophobia

Minor: Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Outing

ericispublius's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny inspiring mysterious tense 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

5.0

A funny yet gripping story by Hank Green (a family of fantastic & moving writers). The story carried inertia: I found myself unable to put it down the further I got into it.

It did a lot of future hinting but taking you down paths that you didn't expect the story to go.

My interpretation of this story contains an overarching theme as well as one that stood out to me. I feel like this story is a critique of fame/power and the grasp that it oft has on us. A quieter tone is, I feel this story may have some to do about climate change, specifically a problem that we all must work on to solve together. These are more speculation that I had toward the end of the book

Even the Acknowledgements made me feel something.

I'm excited to pick up the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Biphobia and Gun violence

itsdelulu's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

I originally was going to give a 3.5 but bumped it up for a CRJ reference. 
A little slow to get into but quickly became an engaging read that I had to see through to the end. I will definitely read A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor next! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Biphobia

thatsssorachael's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Sexual content

cosmicwillow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring 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? Yes

4.75

i fucking loved this book so much wow. im so mad i waited soooo long to read it because it’s phenomenal. so incredibly human and such a great sci-fi commentary on humanity. truly so much fun to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Biphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence

kharlan3's review against another edition

funny tense fast-paced

5.0

Top sci-fi of 2023

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

alexcooper88's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Biphobia