Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman

6 reviews

azalya01's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

This book was incredible! I never give books 5 stars, but I had to with this one. I thought the journal entry style was very well done, and I'm usually a stickler about those. The pacing was great: I never felt too rushed to accept some something or too to care. I wanted to know what would happen next at every page! The main character was well developed, and I definitely felt that I could empathize her,

even if she makes some cruel and selfish choices at times.

I wish I had read this book sooner!

As as the plot of the story,

I think really interesting to ponder on what aspects about the “human condition", as Laverne mentioned, that we take for granted. Memory, community, hope, courage, honesty. I don't know what I would do in a world like that one, but I hope I would make the right choice in the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

typedtruths's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

itsjustgrumpy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.75

Grim, foreboding and tense. It was an emotional read!

Edit: changed from 4.25 to 4.75. Whenever it rains, I do often think of this book. It's changed how I perceive a lot of things in life. How easy it is to simply forget something forever.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

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