Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Penance by Eliza Clark

79 reviews

shrikesong's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming

tctimlin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

I may have to sit with this book for a while.  The Irish bookseller in Foyles in London convinced my friend and I to buy this book.  I started it on the plane, then put it down for a while.  At points, I was feeling less than enthusiastic about the story - but I realized at the end that I had been missing the point.  Written as a “true crime” deep dive into the torture and murder of a teenage girl by three of her classmates (also girls), this journalist narrator presents his story using podcasts, social media posts, interviews with friends and family of the victim and the perpetrators.  He claims to be writing the “definitive” account of the murder -the one that will explain the why behind this horrific crime.  But is that really what he’s doing?  And who is true crime written for?  Who does it benefit?  Whose appetites does it satiate?  An exploration into society’s fascination with crime, especially the most unimaginable crimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

prsmablydeadarm's review against another edition

dark funny reflective 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? Yes

5.0

fantastic and brutal

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

near the beginning there’s really tough to read descriptions of the central crime of the story. a daughter’s suicide is part of a character’s backstory. one of the main characters was molested as a child, and another character’s father was friends with a famous dead pedophile.

sangsmiles's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Xenophobia

amy14's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Torture, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

samanthaleereads's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Suicide, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Racism

em_gauts's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

readingoverbreathing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Torture, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Racism

rayanaj's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

** spoiler alert ** this book was shaping up to be a five star until i got to the final act- girl c. i understand that the entire point of the book is for it to about how disgusting the true crime industry really is, but i am not a true crime girlie and just found girl c's story hard to read. it made me sick. ill sleep with the light on tonight because it was that unsettling.

the ending was phenomenal though. it wasnt a huge surprise as i had already suspected it as i had been alluded to what themes this novel was exploring, but still impeccably executed regardless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

beancamille's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship