Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

64 reviews

abscott's review against another edition

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

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Death, Cursing, Bullying, Violence, Physical abuse, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism and Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Sexual violence, Racism, Self harm, Trafficking, Abortion, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Medical content, Sexism, Sexual assault, Child death, Chronic illness, Gore, Grief, and Gun violence

hbskeen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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: Death of parent, Child abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, Toxic friendship, Child death, Drug use, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy, Vomit, and Sexual content

Minor: Miscarriage, Animal death, Racial slurs, and Suicide

madbarron's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

dark emotional informative 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? Yes

5.0

‘To be here was to be known.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Child death, Death, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Grief, Miscarriage, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Murder

lil_owl_reads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book starts out good and ends incredible. It seemed slow in the middle, but it’s so so unbelievably worth the read. A beautiful look into Appalachia, addiction, overdose, the foster system, and resilience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gun violence, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

dev921's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Vomit, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Child death, Classism, Death, and Transphobia

abisnail564's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Child death

indiana_sorell's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

This book was well written, and had amazing imagery and storytelling. That being said, this is a very dark book. Be prepared to be bummed out for like 80% of this book. Overall a good read, but I honestly wouldn’t recommend because of how bummed out it made me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Death, Suicide, Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

subdue_provide75's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.5

This was a tremendous slog for me. The ending kind of pulled it together, and it does do a good job at showing the systemic violence of poverty and pain pills in Appalachia. But phew, it is not literature, and I would have put it down a number of times if it hadn't been a book club book for me. I could see how, if you read mostly books like this, you would only read 6 or 7 books per year.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Abandonment, and Child abuse

bdowning81's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Incredibly moving and engrossing modern-day take on David Copperfield in the Appalachia region. I kept having to pause the audiobook - wonderfully narrated by Charlie Thurston - to catch my breath or cry, or just to process what I'd just heard.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Grief, Abandonment, Addiction, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship