Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

6 reviews

bookishtraveler's review

I love Gaiman but this collection of short stories just kept getting darker and darker.  I stopped at the one with child sexual violence and abuse.  I might pick it up again but it came on the heels of dnfing "Earthlings" for the same reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pedophilia, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child abuse, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Body horror, Self harm, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Drug use, Slavery, and Trafficking

iono's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Sexual content, Body horror, War, Death, and Murder

Minor: Incest, Rape, Misogyny, Trafficking, and Child death

naomi_k's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Minor: Cannibalism, Incest, Blood, Child death, Torture, Pedophilia, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

rocketdea's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

Inquietante, fascinante e incómodo. No es mi estilo en absoluto y, a pesar de ello, no podría parar de leer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Child abuse, Suicide, and Pedophilia

owls_rainbow's review

There were some short stories I liked, others I detested and felt like violations of nature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Rape

Sex with non-humans

aguattery's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is a good mix of hits and misses. Some of the stories felt like shells of a story that needed to be fleshed out more. Some of the stories were too scary for my taste, some of them I just didn't get (maybe they were too deep or too subtle?). Oppositely, some of them were fantastic. I probably wouldn't read the whole thing again but I would definitely read select stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion