Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

8 reviews

phouka's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pregnancy, and Abortion

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death of parent, Death, Miscarriage, War, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Addiction, Infertility, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment and Child death

stindex's review against another edition

adventurous

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, Body horror, Child death, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Stalking, Infertility, Medical content, and War

jaimeeleigh_'s review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, Child death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Blood, Violence, and Death

ecravens's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and War

l_e_lavalle's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

I'll say it...the movie for breaking dawn (part 2) was better than the book because at LEAST it has a little bit of payoff for all the build up.  Do not read if you're bothered by reading about heavy topics related to pregnancy because it is not handled well (in my opinion of course because I've *thankfully* never been pregnant, I could be wrong about how they were handled).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Child death

braelynm_22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? No

2.5

This book was super slow and I had a really hard time getting through it. The writing style just didn't make it easy to read. The romance is cute, but kinda basic. Honestly, it was almost predictable. The last few chapters were the best part because they had a little action, but it took me way to long to get there. 

"No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, Death, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Abortion

Fighting that includes blood and pregnancy are large topics in this book.

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Child death, Death of parent, Abortion, Murder, Sexual violence, and Grief

Minor: Abandonment, Homophobia, Gun violence, Suicide, Dementia, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Addiction, and Body shaming

lizziaha's review against another edition

3.0

This book is definitely a guilty pleasure for me. I enjoy reading it but it is ultimately so deeply problematic that it’s hard to stay in the story. Aside from Meyer’s regular racism involving the Quileutes (quite literally insinuating that POC are animals) and her drastic white-washing of every single vampire character, there were other problems.

The way Meyer handles Bella’s pregnancy carries deeply anti-abortion sentiments—with the people trying to prioritize Bella’s life being framed as the antagonists. Additionally, solving the love triangle by making Jacob fall in love with a child?? I know that Meyer tries to pretend like it’s not like that but it’s truly insane in my opinion. And with jacob’s perspective we get a healthy dose of misogyny and just a sprinkle of homophobia, so that’s unfortunate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Racism, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, and Misogyny

Minor: Homophobia