Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Het Woud van Birnam by Eleanor Catton

37 reviews

siobhanward's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

2.5

NYT Notable Books 2023: 15/100

This was a bit of a disappointment, but it shouldn't have been, since I didn't particularly care for Catton's <i> The Luminaries </i> either. While this was better than that book, it was only by a small margin. Catton insists on making her books long for no real reason that I can see. This book would have been the same without the level of detail and the amount of time we spent going in circles. It felt like everything important happened in the last 50 pages and nothing really got resolved. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident

rzh's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

WOW

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

bearwithhat's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use

quickermorequickly's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

4.5

A whirlwind of a book. Catton writes masterfully flawed characters whose choices are guided by their incomplete understandings of the situations they face.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use and Vomit

environmental destruction

bookbanshee's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

3.5

A Shakespearean tragedy told in Austenian internal dialogue by a cast of flawed and largely unlikeable characters — not least because of this being an overwhelmingly white cast playing out their dramas and fantasies of climate apocalypse and hero narratives/saviour complexes on stolen land in colonial-settler New Zealand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence

ntab's review against another edition

challenging dark funny medium-paced

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

5.0

Loved this book. The narration is excellent and witty, and I couldn’t put it down from the first page. I was worried as I approached the end (and it became clear that no one would get away with anything, which I thought was getting set up) that it would resolve too rapidly, but I really enjoyed the end even with some things happening “off stage.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

hanz's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cultural appropriation

Minor: Cancer, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

kfergy's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

An enjoyable read, very thought provoking! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Car accident

Minor: Drug use

babonkadonkas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

OMG

i was kind of annoyed when sir owen was killed bc i feel like i've read a million murder cover ups, but this was SO well done, amazing ending, absolutely gut wrenching, hated all the characters tbh i feel like you meet every one of these ppl on the left lmao. also robert lemoine is elon musk

such an enjoyable read, i need to go read everything else eleanor has written ok bye

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail