Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois

27 reviews

aexileigh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, and Vomit

eb10's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death of parent, Child abuse, Car accident, Bullying, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

cabrera_bre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, Gore, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Murder, and Vomit

library_goth's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.5

I enjoyed the writing style and some of the monologues (even though the thought processes didn’t make sense for six year olds), but that’s about where my enjoyment ends. I read the reviews on this and knew what I was getting into, but this really is the most dismal book imaginable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Excrement, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident and Torture

orizenda's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I liked how gross this was sometimes but the levels of gore vary significantly throughout this i think and not that I read a lot of stuff like this idk it just didn’t feel quite right to me. maybe it felt to plopped down into to me idk. or maybe it was the translation may not have actually fit the story i would not have any idea i can’t even pinpoint what exactly made me not rly like this one. maybe the lack of character stories i cared about idk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Vomit

Spoiler

children are murdered by a child

lmar1994's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

vermethys's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Car accident, Excrement, and Vomit

pierreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Gore, and Bullying

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Excrement, Animal cruelty, Vomit, and Alcohol

yourfavavery's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

So I wanted to read this because I heard it billed as Lord of the Flies but with six-year-olds. That's sort of what it is, but instead of factions with some bullies and some victims, it mostly has one psychopathic kid and a series of deadly misfortunes that can happen to scared kids when they're alone in the woods.

It has a moral of life being messy, not having a "happy ending" or a "moral" or "theme", that sometimes bad things just happen and there isn't always hope to be gleaned from a terrible situation.

Overall, it's a good novella - I breezed through it in one night - but don't look here for any warm and fuzzies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Blood, Death, Child death, Vomit, Murder, Excrement, Bullying, Violence, and Child abuse

winsomefish's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Torture, Child abuse, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Bullying, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail