Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman

16 reviews

anna_hepworth's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

5.0

This is very bleak horror, with minimal nasty and much slow creeping dread. The viewpoint is very tightly first person--as diary entries--until the end, when it moves to second, and that works incredibly well in ratcheting up the emotional resonance of the story.

It is a story about forgetting, about an apocalypse--or maybe a pandemic--where one can survive, but not thrive. About the slow erosion of memory and the loss of self that goes with that. 

There is no logic to what is going on, no explanation. Laverne, who is writing the diary, doesn't know the why. They know some of the what is happening in the now, and some memory of the bad things that have happened, but there is no indication that this is all the bad, just all the bad that they have remembered.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

caterina_1212's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

I liked how the story worked within its own constraints, cool concept 

I don't believe Laverne and Zoe are not related, and who knows what other lies Laverne has been told

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

f18's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Gaslighting

Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

emburs's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Gun violence

grimdark_dad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Kidnapping, and Grief

kristinvaldez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

This was a strange little book. 

Journal entries from an old woman living in a town where the water and rain wipes away your memory.  We follow her through suicide thoughts, loneliness, happiness and determination.   

This book is very short so there isn’t much I can say that won’t give it away.   Is there action? No.  Do you have a mystery you solve during reading? No.  It’s just a look into someone’s mind, someone’s kind who keeps forgetting little things and trying so hard to hold on to her memory. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail