Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Реки Лондона by Ben Aaronovitch

15 reviews

lucas_mannion's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Really enjoyed this. Dialogue and protagonist's perspective were funny without trying too hard. Interesting plot, didn't take itself too seriously. Struggled to follow some parts and took me a while to get through but that may just be my own attention problems. Main negative is that all of the female characters were sexualised by the protagonist. Could have been a conscious choice to show his immaturity, but was just a bit tasteless in my opinion. Would like to read more of this series but hope that the female characters are more developed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Excrement, Vomit, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

4.0

Enjoyable read and good set up novel for the series. I found small sections a little too verbose which sometimes brought the quick pace to a crashing stop but that would be my only complaint and I'm hoping that's just partly down to this being a scene setter first novel in the series. Looking forward to book 2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

selimhannah's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

littlebee09's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Suicide, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

searobin's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

The misogyny, fat-phobia, and horniness was very off-putting. I wanted to DNF this book, but it was for book club so I didn't. 

I think the premise had a lot of potential, and I did enjoy some aspects of the storyline, but it was not executed well. 

I would absolutely love a book (not by this author) from the perspective of Mother Thames, or one her tributaries, though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

mayvisin's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative lighthearted 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? No

4.0

I really liked this book! The world building was super fun (especially the rivers), I really enjoyed Peter as a protagonist, the supporting characters were really interesting and the audiobook was really well produced. 

The fly in the ointment for me (and probably why this was 4 instead of 5 stars) was that I was getting a literary version of "Would this pass the Bechdel test?" because almost all the female characters seemed defined by their sexual relationships/availability/lack of availability to various male characters. Clearly after reading mainly women authors for several months, going back to male portrayals of women is a bit of a shock to the system.

I liked the book enough though that I plan to continue the series and hope it gets better from that standpoint...🤞

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction and Rape

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

2.0

This had promise, a supernatural force at the London police, investigating crime but man this wasn't great. Super slow and just kind of boring? Maybe better as a physical read but such a proling process for no reason as an audiobook. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Rape, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

imds's review against another edition

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

feebles640's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Rape, and Sexual violence

unablelemon's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Sexual assault and Xenophobia

Liked the idea and the plot but didnt like the way the author described and wrote about women