Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Sadie by Courtney Summers

79 reviews

ckashley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Quick read. Very difficult context. Still worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

As a parent of teenaged daughters in the "man or bear" Era, this is a tough read. But it's so important.

reedandright's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism and Cursing

bookeduntil's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Terminal illness and Violence

mepereyra6's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

jimins's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

bruhhhhh that ending 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Pedophilia

cecilielaugesen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I think this book will stay with me for a long time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

melimar's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

I started this book not knowing if I would like the format, which switches from Sadie’s POV to West’s POV to snippets of a podcast about Sadie and her sister’s lives. I don’t know how it would have differed to read the book in print, but the audio format helped the different POVs come together well. I really enjoyed this book, though there were some things that kept me from giving it a higher score. It is a bit difficult to get through parts of this book, due to the topics. The ending was a tiny bit disappointing, but I understand why the author made the choice to end it that way. I’m glad I chose to listen to the audiobook version of the book. The narration in this book was absolutely amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

nyantastic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Suicide attempt

ross_emm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

I'm always down for a dual POV book and this delivered! the written format of the podcast works very well for me and I love the way the story weaves back and forth through sadie and the podcast. a devastating read but well worth it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

robin_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

This was much sadder than I expected it to be. 
Check TW/CW before reading this. 
It’s heavy on the topics of revenge in connection with grief and sexually abused children. 
It left me feeling angry and sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer