Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

59 reviews

amyg677's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Suicide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, and War

wyabook234's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence, Dementia, and War

Minor: Mass/school shootings

lulublanche368's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Dementia and Death of parent

Minor: Mass/school shootings and Suicide attempt

jazhandz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book has a really interesting premise and sci-fi twist, which it promptly proceeds to squander through lackluster characters and a bloated, complicated plot. Unfortunately it feels like it’ll join the ranks of scifi books that were almost good enough for me to remember, but not quite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Medical content, Dementia, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Cancer, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Most of the self-harm serves an in-story purpose, rather than being the result of mental illness. Additional CWs for extreme depictions of life under nuclear attack and trauma when faced with an apocalyptic scenario.

mykeyendres's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Sci-fi but in today’s time. Not intergalactic other worldly. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicide, Dementia, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

jennaem27's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Dementia and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Mass/school shootings

chasen's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Dementia, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

yaslanna's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Dementia, and Murder

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

leegray's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Drug use, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Dementia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

andrearahman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

Incredible. Wondrous. Tense. Horrific. Brain-melting. Impossible to put down. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Suicide, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Dementia, Grief, and Mass/school shootings