Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

35 reviews

lambkm's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death and Self harm

bmbriar's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.0

I heard "queer nun detective" and said "give it to me" but I didn't enjoy this book as much as I anticipated. The homage to Chandler-esque mysteries almost veers past homage and into parody. Sister Holiday is a character I know I would like under other circumstances, but her narration is so indulgent and over-written that I was not able to be submerged in the character and the story. 

I did enjoy Holiday's relationship with Riveaux, and the overall plotting picks up towards the end, but the ending nonetheless felt rushed, with characters' attitudes towards each other turning on a dime.

I also called the murderer/arsonist early on, not because of breadcrumbed evidence (the main case-solving clue was presented right at the end of the book), but because she was the only character that Sister Holiday didn't suspect for a moment, thus making my correct call much less satisfying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Homophobia, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

joannalouise's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny and Suicide

Minor: Abortion

evadaisy's review

dark medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

So unnecessarily traumatising. Maybe it's a good book if you don't mind that sort of thing, but please take care of yourself and check the content warnings. This book is so much darker than I expected and I wouldn't have read it if I'd known.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

laketwentytwo's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Incest, Rape, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

rafritz1's review

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Incest, Rape, Suicide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

This book made me laugh out loud several times. I really wish I would have known

the fire investigator was high on pain meds through the entire book

because that would have made her dialogue style make a lot more sense. Besides that, I loved this twist on a murder mystery and I will definitely be checking out more Sister Holiday books if the author writes more.

epeolatri's review against another edition

1.5

This had SO MUCH potential. I mean a queer crime solving nun?? 

It was so boring though. Most of the book was the narrator talking about sweat mixed in with retellings of her traumatic past. The main character did absolutely no “sleuthing” either. 

The .5 is for the last chapter alone, in which we learn the motive and the arsonist, neither of which I guessed. I just wish it didn’t feel so rushed. 

Also, I really need authors to start researching disabilities before writing about them. There’s a scene where a diabetic is given insulin for hypoglycemia, which would have probably killed him in real life. Please don’t ever do that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death

asporkthief's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

really solid prose and great concept, but the pacing kills it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction and Lesbophobia

Minor: Rape, Self harm, and Sexual harassment

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

Honestly way over-hyped :/ I really wanted to like it but within the first descriptions of the MC (and her former love life) there was an offhandedly biphobic description of her ex which basically made me hate the MC from the get go.
The mystery was easily predictable and not a single character was likeable. The story also (unsurprisingly) felt VERY white bc no non-white characters felt fully developed or interesting. There was also *no* mention about police brutality in regards to race - ONLY to queer people - which felt insane not to include given the fact that a young Black student was a suspect the entire time. I’m super disappointed in the author for not having any insight to that.
My last complaint was that the entire thing was also extremely cis-centered (as in transness wasn’t even a THOUGHT to the life of the MC which is always suspicious when the person is a ~feminist lesbian (potential terf?))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Biphobia, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

philli17's review

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Sexual violence