Reviews tagging Injury/injury detail

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, by Axie Oh

34 reviews

sarah_speaks's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Injury/injury detail, War, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

nrogers_1030's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

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

Minor: War and Fire/Fire injury

chrisljm's review

relaxing medium-paced

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

3.0

Honestly I feel like three stars is being generous but the book was entertaining enough so I'll leave it. However I found the plot drags and meanders, and it just felt incredibly unorganized. The characters were flat, and not to say they're unlikable, but there wasn't enough development for me to grow attached to any of them, and this includes all the relationships as well. The prose itself was pretty and flowery, but it also felt juvenile and repetitive. I think the book was too ambitious, and perhaps with a different editor it could have been better. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Violence, Blood, Self harm, War, Death of parent, Injury/injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Grief, and Child death

Minor: Pregnancy

rai's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

This is a book that would be amazing on a high budget visual method. The story and descriptions are vivid and beautiful to imagine. Some twists were identifiable early on while others weren't so apparent. The ending is beautifully depicted as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/injury detail, Violence, and War

purplepenning's review

adventurous emotional mysterious relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Child death, Injury/injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Classism, Alcohol, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

bujo_bellel's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I think that the message that the author wanted to convey was powerful and I really liked how the story ended and all the things we learnt. I really liked the world-building of this book and I was very immersed in it. I really enjoyed the experience!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/injury detail, Grief, and Violence

Minor: War and Death of parent

vigil's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/injury detail, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Death, Blood, Child death, and Violence

lucystolethesky's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Injury/injury detail

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

rhm04's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Child death, Gore, Death, Miscarriage, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/injury detail and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent

eatingbrains's review

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

1.5

Oof.

While I agree that the premise is reminiscent of the movie Spirited Away and Uprooted by Naomi Novik (two things I enjoyed thoroughly), it was very much written for a YA audience.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing.  I think the main difference between YA classics and contemporary YA is that the classics are written to be understood by younger audiences but will still have a broader appeal.

At the end of the day, this one missed that mark for me.  It was very much full of emo, cringey moments, insta-lovey when I could have sworn they were initially portrayed as enemies.  The pacing was bizarre and very jarring (which could be attributed to a dream-like quality, if I was being generous).  Situations were convenient when needed to be, and I often had to suspend my disbelief to continue reading.  Lastly, the characters were lacking development and the repetition got old (referring to all of the grandmother's grandmother bits, and so many sentences starting with "But").

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Miscarriage, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/injury detail, and Medical content