Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

76 reviews

victaphone's review against another edition

sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

It felt like not much happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Fatphobia, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Fire/Fire injury

lcdavenport's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

issyd23's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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? Yes

3.0

Immensely captivating with a disappointing & rushed ending. Gives ‘I Love Dick’ by Chris Kraus energy 3❤️‍🔥

NB Personally disagreed with 90% of the protagonists’ thoughts & actions + her critiques of feminism, consent & cancel culture in a post me too era - but worth reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexism, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Suicide, Stalking, Misogyny, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Racism, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Toxic relationship

ekg's review against another edition

dark reflective tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Eating disorder

Minor: Alcoholism and Fire/Fire injury

lottselgar's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Sexual harassment

itsme_lori's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug use and Sexual assault

sarahlukee's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I really liked the story until the ending which I didn't like at all. Around the end, second hand embarrassment got too strong and everything escalated for no reason and got really absurd. Whilst the beginning was more toned down and contemplative. 
Reading the pov of an older woman was completely new to me and I liked her perspective and how she was contemplating what her students thought and how that differed from her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

nfoutty's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

maddyontheoffbeat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I really like how she portrayed the main character, with all of her insecurities about aging, but the off-branches about “the new generation” felt a little pedantic and overdone. I guess I was also expecting either a Lolita thing or a My Dark Vanessa vibe, which it was not. It kinda just skirted the edges of if.  I also felt that the ending kind of came out of nowhere.

Spoiler

it felt to me that the fire was just an excuse to end it sooner, and that it didn’t really wrap up the story.

 It just feels like there’s a lot unsaid. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

melclayx's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Fire/Fire injury