Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

5 reviews

heather_e's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Suicide, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

sineadw9's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.0

Melancholic, haunting, gently heartbreaking. Truly sad. The story feels well-sized for its length and manages to fit a ton of emotion into just over 100 pages. The sense of inevitability through the whole thing makes it feel surreal. I especially admire how the author intertwines both characters voices throughout. 

It’s a strong, compelling little read. giving it 3/5, not really sure why, maybe I just wanted more for the characters. Maybe it was just too dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Suicide and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

explicit detail of grief after child loss and murder/suicide

carmina_r's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

elysianbud's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

Very prettily written with some lovely turns of phrase. Eerie atmosphere. Predictable plot, but I think that's the point--it's tragic, you know how it ends because it tells you near the beginning, the interest is how they get to that conclusion. Characters are not nice people at all though, makes it very hard to care about them. 
Short, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kimberleydawn's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

Devastating but doesn’t leave you depressed. Hopefully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail