Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

124 reviews

mzgeee53's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Vomit, and Car accident

rachiem's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Cursing and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Violence, and Blood

chellyfishing's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

torihbu's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

this was an action-packed thrill from start to finish. there were multiple plots going on at once (some more developed than others), but between all of it, i never got confused. i thought the gentrification subplot was a bit under-developed—there's only so much you can fit in 350ish words. but the main character's PTS/anxiety subplot and the main "haunting" of the book were extremely well-written, well-paced, and compelling. everything totals up to present the horrors of reality. just when you think you know what's going to happen next, you'll be surprised by this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Minor: Hate crime, Racism, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

midnightgremlin's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

This is not your average haunted house story, it tackles so much more than simply the fear of living within the walls of home belonging to someone or something else. 
I enjoyed the mental health representation of anxiety, panic attacks and obsessive compulsive behaviours attached to anxiety. The way that addiction is portrayed as well, the fact that there is a toll on both the addict/recovering addict and their close friends and family members. 
My least favourite characters happened to be Alec and Piper though they both do end up somewhat redeeming themselves by the end of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Hate crime

diannasbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

The narration in this book was amazing!!! The story was amazing! This story had so many layers to it! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

typedtruths's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

 ▷ Representation: Black mc with anxiety & entomophobia; Black scs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Trigger warnings for anxiety and panic attacks, graphic entomophobia (bed bugs), substance addiction discussed, drug use and abuse discussed, overdose recounted, poverty discussed, injury, hospitalisation for anaphylaxis, serious injury of a pet (off-page), parental divorce recounted, ableist/ableist language surrounding mental illness (specifically anxiety), incarceration and false incarceration discussed, police violence/abuse of power/neglect of duties discussed, kidnapping of a child, fire (house fire), riots

maresuju's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

stacy_27_'s review

mysterious slow-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

4.0

I know I would never be in a horror novel because after the first plate move or spooky hand I would be goneeeee.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Fire/Fire injury

fkshg8465's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Upgrading to a four after some thought. It's a good allegory for racism in the US. Would be a good book to teach in high school, if I had it my way ;-)

Felt like I was reading a version of the Korean movie Parasite. But it was a lot less creepy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail