Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

7 reviews

ellanarose's review against another edition

dark hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Antisemitism, Grief, and Death of parent

shancraic's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Confinement, Genocide, Homophobia, and Racism

Minor: Animal death and Alcohol

lcg527's review

emotional informative mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Outing

kimveach's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

While the first two sections of this book were paced slowly, it was worth the payoff at the end. It was a disturbing book, and I'm not sure the ending could have happened. Regardless, I will be thinking about this book for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, Classism, and Deportation

memeraryfiction's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.75

The Safekeep is an incredible book; I couldn't put it down and read it in two sittings. Van der Wouden's writing is excellent; she conveys tension and emotion so beautifully. Given the book's subject matter (memory, loss, echoes of the Second World War), it could easily have become maudlin but never did. I find war novels a very difficult sell these days (because there are just so many of them!), but this one is well worth reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Genocide, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Cursing, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment

reb_knits's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

Let’s absolutely go lesbians 

Somehow didn’t know this book was gay before I started it so this top-tier sapphic yearning was a treat

Definitely not the book for you if you hate the “oh no we are gay and oh no it is the olden days what shall we do” genre but I was pleasantly surprised by the way this book explored and flipped that trope 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Physical abuse

readin_robin19's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.25

Excellent, but very sexually explicit. Haunting, atmospheric , psychologically intense story of two very different women and a house. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and War