Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Água Fresca Para As Flores by Valérie Perrin

17 reviews

jo845's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• 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, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Beautiful translation with lots of unexpected twists. Sad but I didn’t cry. Lots of choices made by the characters that I don’t agree with but I couldn’t put it down and finished in two days.

leslie_overbookedsocialworker's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

wisewise's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-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: Child death, Death, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Self harm, Vomit, Stalking, and Lesbophobia

filipa_maia's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-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? Yes

4.0

I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did, but it grabbed me from the first page.

More than a story about love and loss, this is a story about emotions, how to deal with them and how to accept the things that life throws our way. This book is a brilliant journey through grief, self discovering and love.

Just to point out a few negatives (and why this wasn't a 'five star' book): I think this book was unnecessarily long (too descriptive about things that don't matter to the plot) and sad (there is not a single happy couple throughout the book, and practically 99% of the stories are about people who betrayed each other).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Animal death and Cancer

rachelkreadsbookz's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

srm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

What a stunningly beautiful book. And such unique characters, who I just love. Honestly, I'm a little too emotional after just finishing it to write much more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicide and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

vb_marie's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

2.75

L'histoire de ce livre est prenante et le personnages sont bien décrits. Par contre, le style ne m'a pas plu : beaucoup de jeux de mots et métaphores m'ont semblées forcés.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

mightyfrenchbookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Violette est la gardienne du cimetière. On assiste au flashback pour comprendre comment elle s'est rendu à faire ce travail peu commun. On aborde sa relation avec son mari, son enfant, les gens qui viennent se recueillir auprès de leur défunt, etc. On aborde plusieurs sujets sensibles, la mort (bien entendu) et le deuil, l'adultère, les relations toxiques, etc. Quelques personnages sont complexes, et pas tout à fait comme on les a étiquetés. J'ai trouvé l'écriture incroyable même si les dialogues étaient parfois un peu fade. Les chapitres étaient courts ce qui faisait en sorte que j'étais incapable de déposer le livre. J'ai beaucoup aimé les citations en tête de chapitre. Au final, un livre très émouvant, lire ici que j'ai pleuré. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism

catandherbooks's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

Read the 400+ pages that make this masterpiece of a novel in ONE (1) day - mostly because I needed to return it to the library soon but also because this exquisitely written book is so addictive, I loved this story and the character development and everything else about it. Violette has become one of my favorite literary characters and I don't think I'll forget about her any time soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent