Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Anomalija by Hervé Le Tellier

16 reviews

waterwolves's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Homophobia, Incest, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Murder

frank365's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious reflective tense

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

5.0

Un aereo Parigi-New York atterra in una giornata di giugno e viene dirottato a una base militare americana. Quell'aereo ha una particolarità: a bordo ci sono gli stessi passeggeri e lo stesso equipaggio di un altro aereo atterrato tre mesi prima.
Ci si trova davanti a un caso inedito: più di 200 persone si ritrovano a fare i conti con sé stessi di tre mesi prima, nel frattempo alcuni di loro hanno vissuto avventure differenti, mentre altri dovranno condividere persone e cose con il loro nuovo doppio.
Un libro scritto molto bene e con un finale inaspettato. Consigliato.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

town_scar's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

the_other_yvonne's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, and Suicide

torismazarine's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Self harm, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

nikenacs's review against another edition

challenging inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcohol

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia and Pedophilia

jencolumb0's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective medium-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

5.0

A multi-layered exploration into life, the universe, and everything, with a lot of wry side-swipes at pop culture as a lot of Big Questions are posed and Core Assumptions challenged. This book manages to be thought-provoking without bogging itself down. It echoed Amores Perros for me, but border, deeper, and . . . French. The cast of characters is almost unwieldy but that observation (or even discomfort), in itself, encourages the reader down a separate rabbit hole of thought and reflection. This is not the book you pick up when you simply want a story to get lost in. It is far better suited to those nights in which you miss your university philosophy course work but don’t want to actually dig out, dust off, or dive into the original texts. For the right moment, an outstanding jumping off-point for some interesting thought experiments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Suicide, and Pregnancy

Minor: Genocide, Vomit, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Specific issues to flag generally covered by the content warnings above: graphic description of dismemberment, passing reference to tattoos from German concentration camps during WWII, and discussion of incestuous child sex abuse that provides the general idea of what happened but does not get into too many details and is positively resolved.

fahyhallowell's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? No

4.0

Such a fun read! An unexplained phenomena leads to an exploration of philosophical ideas about the nature of identity and reality with a good dash of humor thrown in. The president seemed familiar lol! My favorite bit was the top secret contingency plans created by nerdy college mathaticians.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

kyrajg's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Violence and War