Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

54 Minuten by Marieke Nijkamp

69 reviews

ebac622's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

katnip46's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

This was a book topic I was really interested. I had read some reviews that said mixed things about this novel, so I decided to give it a try. This is surely not my favorite book. The characters are hard to connect with and I find myself not caring about them much. Overall, I liked bits and pieces and enjoyed some scenes more than others. I think one thing that I would’ve loved was real human emotions in the characters. Some characters had unrealistic emotions to a school shooting and death, if not all of the characters. I liked reading this but I would only recommend if this genre and storyline sounds interesting to learn about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sallytiffany's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

4.0

This was very gripping. I thought it did a great job of bringing you into the reality of a school shooting. I did find it confusing with all the characters though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

barnesd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Blood, Dementia, Mass/school shootings, and Injury/Injury detail

doctorslycat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Wonderfully written and a heartbreaking novel. Had me on the edge the entire time, I couldn’t put it down. It’s been a bit since I read it, and if I could read it again for the first time, I would. It does touch on some heavy themes, most of which are pretty self-explanatory, but it does a great job telling them. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a more darker story and are prepared for some angst and grieving with the characters. Though it’s a relatively short time span covered in the book, the writing makes it seem like it takes longer - but in a good way. Love it, and would read it again for the first time if I could!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

been a little bit, but I do believe the aggressor commits sU!c!d€ at the end of it

astalavista's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

julienicole1106's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, and Car accident

lorraine19's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

1.0

I was expecting a chaotic, gritty, realistic view of school shooting. I was thoroughly disappointed. Instead, this reads like an overly scripted Hollywood movie. There's so many long dialogues and every character just had to have some dramatic heroic moment even if it made no sense. The type of characters didn't really match the setting. 

I don't like telling spoilers in reviews but I feel like I need to provide examples of scenes to express how unrealistic it was written....

(SPOILERS) The shooter comes in and an auditorium of a hundred students just goes completely silent. When the doors open, not a single person panics or makes a run for it. Everything is controlled and there is little chaos. Police officers find students a couple blocks from the school and BRING THEM BACK. Like what?! (SPOILERS)

Reading the author's note, they state they grew up in a different country and we're unfamiliar with school shootings. They wrote the book in order to "learn about it". Clearly they should've done more research. Insulting to anyone that's been in proximity to violence like this and does not provide a realistic or fair view of school shootings at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

carillon333's review against another edition

4.75

I loves this book! It was a little slow because it’s covered only by like 54 minutes, but that would be expected. This one was very sad, though..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Homophobia and Injury/Injury detail

redheadedtoad's review against another edition

dark sad tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.5

I read this book in one sitting and I couldn’t put it down. Reading this did give me a stomach ache
However, I have several issues with this book that dropped the rating. 

1. Everyone I liked died. Hate when that happens and of course it has to happen here
2. The flashbacks were too much and didn’t always add to the plot. Could’ve axed half of them and I wouldn’t have noticed. 
3. Autumn needed to shut up about being a dancer. Oh my god every time it was her POV she was pissing me off. 
4. The mention of
   Sylv being raped by Tyler
   felt like a last minute trauma add on that wasn’t handled very well.
5. The actual logistics of the shooting weren’t the most realistic. Never would there be an assembly where 99% of a school would be in one room like that. Nope not happening in public schools, more kids would’ve skipped and there would be more staff around the building. And then the police part wasn’t the best either. 
6. Last thing, the romance part of this book was odd.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Injury/Injury detail