Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Bookbinder by Pip Williams

25 reviews

lexcellent's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

laheath's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

Another beautiful and unique historical fiction novel from this author! Considered a companion to The Dictionary of Lost Words, it can be read alone but makes occasional references to characters and events from the first book. Whereas that one focused on the compilation and printing of the first Oxford English Dictionary, this book looks at the women binding books at the Oxford University Press from the beginning of WWI to a couple of years after the end of it. Strong female characters in a setting of WWI England, women's suffrage, and the Spanish Flu make for an interesting and emotional read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Classism

Moderate: Death, Grief, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Medical content, and Alcohol

chrisiant's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Pandemic/Epidemic

helsbelles's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail

_mi's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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: Blood and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

crazybooklady91's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

Maude seems autistic to me even though it isn't mentioned

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

samsearle's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual harassment

dreadspawn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Death of parent

marymason's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

i liked this, but v hard for it to compete w how much i loved the dictionary of lost words!! was nice seeing some of the dictionary’s characters make an appearance too 🥹

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

aseel_reads's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

100% coding Maud as autistic, so many echolalia!! This was very sweet and very sad, but like the other book by this author, very much focusing on the intersection between gender and class, ignoring race completely 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying and Fire/Fire injury