Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

4 reviews

ireadinbed's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-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

5.0

I put this book off for so long, but I think it was kismet. I needed to be this me to truly appreciate it. 

I really love this authors prose and these characters and the set up reminded me a lot of a more grown up version of their book down among the sticks and bones. So highly recommend if you are a fan of that wayward children book. 

Okay gonna go contemplate my unhealthy fixation on the character Erin now. Lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

cady_sass's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

Wow. I’m going to need anywhere from 7-240 business days to wrap my mind around this one. There is simply nothing else like this… I am so envious of Seanan McGuire’s mind and the way that it works. How do you even come up with this?! 

This is weird level 1000 so if you don’t care for nonsense and pseudoscience then just steer clear. If you’re down for melting your brain, this is the one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gaslighting, Medical content, Abandonment, Bullying, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Murder, Stalking, Suicide, Blood, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Violence, Gun violence, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

jazhandz's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.75

If this book were 20% shorter it would've been 50% better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, and Abandonment

rasa's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

I don't think I can write a proper review of this book without spending at least 5 pages. I read this book for a month, this is the only book I read in September. But I kept thinking about it for the entire month, almost every waking hour and part of the reason it took so long was because I didn't want to let go and at the same time, the real life stuff was SO REAL and I kept feeling like all of it is happening to me too, and all of the emotional range is very, very rough, deep and entangled. There was so much mystery, fantasy, fairytale elements and all of them made sense to me. Like this is how the world should be, this is why emotions are difficult some times. There is a chance that I will judge my future friendships on what others think about this book. It is very niche, not everyone will like it. but for me - it was so much more than perfect. Roger and Dodger and their relationship is soo precious. I have never read a book like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abandonment and Violence