Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

9 reviews

saintyeehaw's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body shaming, Confinement, Grief, Bullying, Physical abuse, and Body horror

proza's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

2.25

I think that L'Engle had some interesting ideas, and I can appreciate that, but in my opinion the execution was very poor. The way the morals of the story were conveyed didn't work at all for me. That being said, I am able to understand why other enjoy this book. It's just that I did not enjoy it at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse

singalana's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

0.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Body horror, Bullying, and Kidnapping

kirame's review

adventurous dark lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying, Forced institutionalization, and Confinement

Minor: Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, and Infidelity

stories's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

There’s a lot to this, and while it reads comfortably as a kids book, I see how it’s lived on.

Book club: mid-5/6
Explore descriptive language (especially of setting) and character design (power of character flaws)
Themes around love, acceptance and valuing difference
Big questions around time travel/physics, and the ethics of utopia (equal doesn’t mean alike)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, and Confinement

antonia_schuro's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

2.75

Too christian for me. Basically thinly vailed cold war propaganda about good christian kids going on a scientific outer space adventure to fight evil communism. Writing is good but damn. Would not recommend reading it for the first time as an adult.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, War, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Confinement, Classism, Bullying, Abandonment, and Child abuse

shieldbearer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Simply put, a must read for adults and children alike. There's a reason this book is a classic and a reason it defies classification even today. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

Minor: Colonisation, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, and Bullying

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I did not realize what genius this writing was when I was younger, and I'm so glad that I can experience it now.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Injury/Injury detail

lycheejelly's review

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Moderate: Abandonment and Bullying