Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

56 reviews

spatulafish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Death, and Gore

Minor: Addiction, Sexism, and Vomit

jellbelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

A tense read with twists. The way it's written I felt I was standing there with Mack and her sister, cousin and all the aunties. Few passages gave me actual shivers, gasps and shock. Felt so many connections to the characters, esp Mack. Saw a lot of my family in hers. 

The bit about her Kokum reminded me of a dream I had once where my grandma kept telling me I had to leave and I tried to bring her with me but she said no YOU need to leave. I was having my first low blood sugar since being diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic and it was severe low...a sugar of 1.2 and my grandma had passed 4 years prior. Hair on my arm just stood up reading that part. 

Like Mr Hector said "it's like a hand comes out and touches yours" when you read something you thought unique to you and here it written down by someone you've never met and don't know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Genocide, and Forced institutionalization

Additional Triggers: sibling death

elysianbud's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism

violetbooklover's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Chronic illness, Cursing, Genocide, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Cultural appropriation, and Classism

aeternus's review

emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Racism, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

jenlengland's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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: Body horror, Death, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcoholism, Vomit, and Alcohol

angievansprang's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

This book was great on audio, the characters really came alive. This is a chilling story that revolves around sisterhood, complicated family dynamics, and self forgiveness. I thought Johns did a fantastic job taking a practical, relatable situation and spinning it in the direction of horror and folktales that many of us have heard. Several scenes in this made me feel like I needed to catch my breath, but I really fell in love with our main character and her family. Totally a story of strong women supporting each other intergenerationally. Cannot wait to see what this author does next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Gore and Injury/Injury detail

zombiezami's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug use, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

imscrem's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

3.0

I liked this book pretty well until the second to last chapter, which involved a bunch of disgusting body horror. I’m not a fan of gore at the best of times, but I was listening to this audiobook while making my dinner, which…left a bad taste in my mouth.

Besides that, I did enjoy the family and friend dynamics that this book contained. I especially enjoyed the aspects of the book that functioned as more of a supernatural mystery than as gruesome body horror. Fortunately, that *was* the majority of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

queersubtext's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Addiction and Cancer