Reviews tagging 'Death'

Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

20 reviews

mehrymehriss's review

adventurous emotional sad slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death of parent, Death, and Child death

jocogr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pregnancy, Racism, Violence, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Death, Gore, and Suicidal thoughts

kylaslittlelibrary's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Rape

readsbyrach's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-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? No

5.0

Heartbreaking and beautifully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Death, and Rape

kgormley's review

emotional hopeful sad 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? No

4.75

 I really enjoyed this book, but it is not an easy read (or listen) ... definitely not for the faint-of-heart. I am pretty sure I'd last about 2 minutes out there on the trail west. Those people faced more hardships that we can even imagine and this story brought a lot of that to life. More than once I wanted to cry along with the characters for the things they were having to endure. If you can handle the occasional descriptions of violence, blood and gore (there is also one rape scene), and the occasional language, I would recommend this very moving story. I think I will read other titles by this author in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Death of parent, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Rape and Cursing

cc0906's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Kidnapping, Child death, Violence, Gore, Sexism, Death, and Racism

fionab_16's review

adventurous emotional sad

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

amw23's review

emotional

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, and Death of parent

Moderate: Kidnapping and Animal death

voyage_of_a_time_wanderer's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Grief, and Death

maddie_rae_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

Having grown up in Northern Nevada along the California Trail, I love stories about it’s history and the people that forged my home. It is a sad, yet hopeful history. 

I also love that this story is based on real people and events. There’s literary liberties, sure, but also a raw realness. Life was hard along the trail. Accidents happened. Cultures clashed. Death, grief, and hope was ever present. 

I like the way that the Native American cultures were portrayed through multiple lenses-the military, the emigrants along the trail, different tribes along the way, etc. 

Heavy topics including death, murder, scalping, rape, and grief are addressed in a tasteful way-with enough description to understand the heartache and tragedy without going overboard. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Death

Minor: Rape and Sexual content