Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Secera by Dan Sociu, Neal Shusterman

176 reviews

purstiltski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Torture

aprilb_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Classism

bookiesncreme's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

kailiyahknight's review against another edition

dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death, Torture, and Death of parent

breewriteback's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

omg that was such a good book.

going into this story, i hoped i would like it considering how interesting the synopsis was, and i have to say i was not disappointed. from complex characters to a wonderfully compelling plot, this book had me hooked.

something i really enjoyed about the book was the fact that in between each chapter, there was a journal entry from a scythe. it gave us more insight about the personalities and morals of different scythes. 

also the ending was fantastic. for the first time ever, i predicted an ending “twist” and oh my god did it make the ending all that more enjoyable. especially because my prediction was very much wishful thinking.

i was so happy when citra punched rowan in the face. i hoped something like that would happen, where one of them would give the other immunity so that they wouldn’t be able to glean the other, but the additional element of citra using the punch as payback was hilarious.

i definitely expected this book to be around a 4-star read, but i enjoyed the reading experience so much it can’t be anything less than 5-stars. lets hope the next books are just as good!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

oxian_d's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

3.25

This book was too depressing for me, opening old wounds, reliving the past again and scarring old scars deeper than a knife could. At first it was mysterious but then it got too predictable and worse boring along the way. I yawned many times I could count. Although some topics do open for questions as life and death is at hand. None will truly know when one hasn't experienced real death. So again this is quite different but not my cup of tea.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

missmali's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death

ashleymg99's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

A friend recommended this book and I was really pleasantly surprised by it. I thought I knew where the plot was going, but there were several twists I genuinely didn’t see coming and each time I LOVED the direction it took the story in. I don’t want to elaborate too much, but I’ll put some of my favorites under the spoilers tag.

1) Citra and Rowan being pitted against one another, where only one can live. This was my original “oh, there’s the twist!” Moment. 
2) Rowan killing Scythe Goddard & co. I really thought he was going to be the Big Bad.
3) Faraday wasn’t murdered, he faked his own death.

One thing about Scythe is, there’s quite a lot of talk of death, dying, and killing. So you’d think the book would be quite dark. But it’s NOT, and that’s so interesting to me. It’s a topic we all try our hardest to avoid thinking about, but Shusterman really digs in, especially though the journal entries, to explore what it means to be, essentially, immortal. 

I’m so excited to read the second book, I’ve been struggling all year to find the motivation to read and this has really reinvigorated me in a way other books haven’t. I can’t wait to see what twists and turns the story takes in the next 2 books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

rosie_robot's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Racism, Torture, and Fire/Fire injury

claireltravers's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Death of parent