Reviews tagging 'War'

The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra

5 reviews

maya_vee's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Suicide and Torture

bebop2k's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and War

kclay98's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Different characters are narrators across different timelines that com together in an unexpected poignant way

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Minor: Drug abuse, Suicide, and Abortion

muzzfuzz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Murder, and War

rieviolet's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I think for me personally the book was a bit of a mixed bag.

I can appreciate the ability in creating the narrative structure, the author did really well when it came to interweaving the various short stories, with their recurring characters and plotlines. The writing style also was very evocative.
However, I have to say that I didn't really connect much with any of the characters.

All in all, the book felt like an alternation of "very high" highs and "very low" lows: some passeges and reflections were really beautiful and poignant, but some parts really made me so uncomfortable and I struggled even to get through them. The last section, just as an example, I found too bizarre and I honestly just skimmed through it, wanting to get to the end faster. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Gore, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Suicide, Excrement, Abortion, and Fire/Fire injury