Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

5 reviews

sharonus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Blood, and Death of parent

deebee223's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

crizzle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

2.0

For every book that most people think is great, or in Amazon's opinion "the best book of the year", there has to be someone that didn't like it.  I'm that person.  I can understand why people enjoyed it.  It's easy to read and parts of it are very entertaining.  However, the undercurrent of violence that runs through it didn't work for me.   For me, it felt more like a Quentin Tarantino ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood") or Coen Brothers ("Fargo") movie.  I can enjoy those sorts of movies since they are only a couple of hours, but this book took up too much of my time and left me unhappily unsettled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

mondovertigo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Racism, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War