Reviews tagging 'Violence'

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson

17 reviews

pqqq's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Violence, Death, Medical content, Murder, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, War, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

ru_th's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Everything is irrelevant. 
Everything is important. 
Everything is important, until it is irrelevant. 
Breathe in. Breathe out. Until you cannot. 
Memory is malleable. History is mutable. All I can do is try to make sure my story isn’t lost. I have saved what I can, so you will understand what we have become. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Body horror, War, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Violence, and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Homophobia, Murder, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Xenophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Torture

liter_aly's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Gore, and Violence

quinnjuliac's review

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Confinement, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Psychological torture

librarymouse's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective fast-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

5.0

I've found that I love the niche of nonfiction/memoirs written about a fictional world and fictional people. I really loved this book. Cranor and Matthewson have a talent for describing a character's descent into into madness/paranoia/a conspiracy as a reasonable, understandable, and extended progression. They way they build suspense is very much like the frog and boiling water metaphor, and they pull you right alongside the characters. Miriam feels like a friend, and I desperately want more information about the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Colonisation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, Genocide, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer

jendif's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Violence and War

leahjanespeare's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

In the vein of World War Z, this is a chilling fictional autobiography of an apocalyptic future - hardcore horror scenarios, as these apocalypses tend to be. The autobiography we are reading is from that of a Dr. Miriam Gregory who survived the collapse -- and remaking of, the world as everyone knew it. She specialised in child psychology and skirted the metaphysical with never before seen tactics for erasing trauma. What could be better and more successful than a new world without trauma? Nothing can go wrong here! Muahahaha.

But as Miriam's stories get wackier and possible conspiracies are uncovered, footnotes slowly undermine her claims. Footnotes from a new society claiming anti-censorship, and defending the new government and anything they may or may not have done in the realm of human experimentation. Conveniently, any records beyond Miriam's memoir cannot be found. BUT honestly, I trusted neither Miriam's account nor the footnote auditor - both were fantastically unreliable and left me totally unsettled by the end. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence

indiarose8's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

Overall I loved the story and premise. However it moves quite slowly from the beginning through the middle. It only really picks up three quarters of the way through but once it does, it's compelling! 

Really well written and gripping at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical trauma, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit, War, and Gaslighting

littlehibou7's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Confinement, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Child death, and Forced institutionalization

cheye13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Confinement

Minor: Gun violence and Gore