Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel

8 reviews

katreenagd's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Gun violence

amyreh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse

wormgirl's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Child abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Murder, and Infidelity

kommatator's review against another edition

mysterious

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Addiction, Pregnancy, Violence, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Drug abuse, and Miscarriage

emilyinherhead's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

It's a literary thriller about a quartet of people who played jazz together in high school and are now caught in a tangled web of mystery around a child who looks like one of the members, and it also features some overlap with other Emily St. John Mandel books. The sentences are beautiful and the pages practically turn themselves. I don't know what else to tell you. I will now read anything this woman writes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Gun violence

quickermorequickly's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Emily St. John Mandel's books are rewarding to readers who go through multiple books— I love the interlocking characters, names, and situations among them. Up to this point, I have also read Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, both of which had overlapping characters in slightly differing contexts. In The Lola Quartet, we briefly run into the ruinous aftermath of Jonathan Alkaitis's Ponzi scheme, and I believe the Canadian band Baltica is shared as well. As in The Glass Hotel, St. John Mandel grapples with the moral aftermath of the late-2000s financial crisis.

This novel takes place entirely in the United States, mostly in the South, but also in New York and Utah, so the Canadian spellings ("practise," "colour") stick out more. And it is definitely more of a thriller, almost cheekily a noir, than the other titles of hers that I have read so far.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Stalking

davidbowie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Infidelity, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Child abuse

Moderate: Animal death and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Infertility

folchart's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Drug use

Minor: Gun violence