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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

146 reviews

justdiana's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Trafficking

sby's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

lduff1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

opplecopter's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Pedophilia, Car accident, and Abortion

vigilant_m's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

This has been one of my favorite books that I’ve read in the past 5 years. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

mobymaize's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Demon Copperhead is a hard read. It isn't hard in terms of the actual language of it not making too much sense, but it's hard because you want Demon to stop doing so much shit. You want him to stop suffering, to get help before he loses everything. It's emotional, it's devastating, and, if anything, it is full of hope. Hope to become better, to recover, to mend oneself and become a person who, while still having traumas, is an actual person. Overall fantastic :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

monicafaith4's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

5.0

I won’t read anything like this in a long while, if ever. I’ll be back to collect my thoughts once I’ve stopped crying over the enormity of this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

nerdyforbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

If your soul doesn’t hurt after reading this one… 

I found myself immediately pulled into the story from the start. Demon’s life isn’t great, but they seem to be doing OK for the situation. Until it gets worse. And you get punched in the heart again and again. It’s painful reading all the shit this poor kid continues to go through. All the adults that fail him over and over, even the ones that kinda don’t but still do. 

It’s beautifully written. You can see the entire scene. This was one of the issues I had with the story at times though. Too often was a scene over written that I just zoned out until it went back on track. There were also points where too much time was spent on crap that just didn’t feel important. Unfortunately by the 400 page marker I was ready to be done after already hitting the point of “ok this could time jump a bit more” maybe 100 pages earlier. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

machenn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

macykey's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

4.25

This book was excellent. The writing was gorgeous, the story was engrossing. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but the writing style seemed to change as Demon got older. It made me think the writing was reflecting his aging, which I thought was smart. There were a couple things that didn’t sit right with me or rubbed me the wrong way. I felt the ending was wrapped up too quickly. I saw the interpersonal development coming, but I wish it’d been done sooner. I also felt that some of the traumatic things that happened to Demon were a little more detailed than necessary. And I get people having nicknames, but sometimes they all just got lost in the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Miscarriage, Suicide, Car accident, and Abortion