Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Bekenntnisse einer Maske by Yukio Mishima

5 reviews

nimbos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

This book gathers everything I enjoy in a good read: an unreliable, morally ambiguous narrator, dark and twisted desires and religious imagery. Besides all that, it was a book that spoke so realistically about the struggles of a homosexual youth, that posed so many questions and that made me feel all the less alone in my own struggle. I found myself, as uncanny as this may sound, relating to the main character in many aspects of my journey of self-discovery.

It's medium paced and easy to read once you grasp the writing style. It is a very visual book, making up vivid pictures without becoming overly descriptive and these pictures are always filled with light, even in the most gorish descriptions, in contrast to the dire themes of the book. It is obsessive, intoxicating and erotic without ever being vulgar. It felt, overall, very sophisticated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Homophobia, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, and War

stuckduck's review against another edition

informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

nerdkitten's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and War

Moderate: Death, Blood, Cannibalism, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

larseneiii's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Cannibalism, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying and Chronic illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

seanamcphie's review against another edition

dark funny reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail