Reviews tagging 'Death'

O Labirinto do Fauno by Guillermo del Toro, Bruna Beber, Cornelia Funke

24 reviews

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

5.0

This is one of my favorite movies so I was excited to see it in book form. Love the cover! It's dark and beautiful just like the film. This is a great companion novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Violence, Misogyny, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Torture, Blood, Grief, War, Murder, and Sexism

Moderate: Gore and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Cannibalism, Abortion, Vomit, Child abuse, and Cursing

bibliophilecats's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

Unnecessarily gruesome. Not YA.
Only good thing is the ending of Ofelia's story.
The mix of child's sort of innocent viewpoint with horror and gore did not work for me at all. No idea what the target audience/age demographic is supposed to be.
Cannot recommen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Body horror, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual harassment

ocean_in_a_teardrop's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Pregnancy, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, War, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Child abuse

readingduckling's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

I don't think, that I would have bought this book under normal circumstances, because I'm not big on horror/thriller story's. But I found this book, a bit beat up for one euro, and because I recognised the Author and liked the artwork, I decided to buy it anyway. And I am so glad, that I bought it, because the book was amazing. 
I know the book is connected to the movie pan's Labyrinth but I can't compare it to one another, because I can't watch horror movies. But the book is also amazing as a standalone. 
It's the story of a young girl in Spain douring the 2. World war. She and her extremely pregnant mother move in with her mother's new husband. Who is a very sadistic person, he isnt interested in his new wife, let alone her daughter, he is just interested in the baby she is growing. His child. 
The girl, Ofelia, is learning in the beginning of the book, that she is the princess of the underworld, who went missing many many years ago. 
Now she has to complete 3 challenges to come back. 
The book is incredibly well written. And filled with literary pictures, real pictures, emotions and so much more. I was a little bit sad about how much time I needed to read this book, would have preferred to just read it in one sitting it was certainly interesting enough to do that. But the book was also in parts triggering, so I needed breaks to process it. 
But I really loved this book and the messages especially the anti fashist one. It's so important to keep in mind how bad right wing politics are. 
The book is brilliantly written all characters who are ment to be likable are very likable and the villans in the story are not. 
It's definitely a book I will some day reread.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Torture, Murder, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Gun violence, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: War

luumii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Grief, Torture, Emotional abuse, Genocide, War, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Blood, and Toxic relationship

spacepandita2022's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Torture, War, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, and Pregnancy

aquamarinecadet's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

A terrifically gruesome children's book. I would not recommend gifting this book to children who still believe in Santa, fairies or the sort, it would quite literally break their dreams into brittle little pieces and pound them into bloody ashes :) 
Which makes this book a great read for 10+ year olds who know a bit about WWII, and who used to like fairytales (or maybe still do)
I for one, liked this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Misogyny, and Death

bookish_vicky's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

laravo21's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

naiu_cs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

While I really enjoyed this book, because it was indeed a very exciting anf yet easy read, I do not think that it is actually suited for the targeted age group.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Child abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, and Grief