Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

289 reviews

caitlin_hire's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Miscarriage

meaganb914's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Rape, Violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Grief, Torture, Child death, Death of parent, Excrement, Gun violence, Racism, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, War, Deportation, Death, Genocide, and Sexual violence

meg_turnsthepage's review

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The Nightingale is a very heavy, emotional, and heartbreaking read, but also includes strong and inspirational female main characters, who show great character growth throughout the book. Make sure you have tissues nearby 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Torture, Antisemitism, Death, Grief, Murder, and War

newdream's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

This was very good. I just live this story, but I need some time to process it. Soo good...
Ugh I just love all the characters and it was very hard to watch them go through pain. Isabelle was just so amazing, so brave, it kind of opened my eyes. I love when books teach me something, and this book taught me how hard and ugly war is. How war changes you, how life was and still is so unfair and hard. So emotional and touching, I was on the wdge of my seat. The beginning was a little slow, but I couldn't stop reading it for the majority of time. Last hundred pages were very hard and emotional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, and Physical abuse

passionatereader78's review

emotional sad 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

This was an emotional read. Two sisters doing what they think is right to get through the war. One trying to save children and living with the enemy. The other joining the resistance and rescuing pilots.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Genocide, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, War, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Classism, Confinement, Religious bigotry, Violence, Body shaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death, Cancer, Police brutality, Murder, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

micahhhh20's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Infertility, Genocide, Grief, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual violence, Death of parent, War, Blood, Child death, Antisemitism, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Hate crime

stephabee_reads's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Hate crime, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Child death

Minor: Confinement, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Rape, and Cancer

humangirlemma's review

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.5

This book is equal parts sad, inspiring, beautiful, and hopeful. It lives in the grey areas, like many things with war, and plucks at your heartstrings any chance it gets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Rape

jenny_steffens's review

informative sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

smkelly1997's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

The writing was beautiful. The story well researched. The characters were well rounded. I laughed. I cried. I loved.

the only reason I did not give this 5 stars was because I was able to predict the two “twist”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, War, Antisemitism, Cancer, Child death, Death of parent, Deportation, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture