Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

205 reviews

martha_is_reading's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Death

Moderate: Physical abuse and Trafficking

Minor: Pregnancy, Rape, Slavery, and Sexual violence

brianvirgil's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Child death, Genocide, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Rape

cait_mccarron's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Child death, Slavery, Sexual assault, Grief, Death, Murder, and Violence

henneyce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Child death and Rape

violarosa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

Genius retelling of the war of troy with focus on the different women, their battles, their heroism, their pride, their experiences and suffering. With all the war in the world right now, this is more current than ever, showing how the innocent suffer, when war is about to happen, when wars are fought and even in their aftermath.
It is a heavy topic with many sad endings. No escapisme and not recommended as a light hearted entertainment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Child death, Rape, and War

lauramcc7's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Grief, Rape, Slavery, Physical abuse, Murder, Death, Child death, Violence, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

tieflingmom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual harassment, Grief, Blood, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Colonisation, Rape, Toxic relationship, War, Genocide, Abandonment, and Sexual assault

jordanez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Kidnapping, Slavery, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Child death

hevlav's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

A Thousand Ships is told through immersive and beautiful POVs from a variety of women around the time of the Trojan War. While most are victims of tragedy, the novel does not shy away from sharing how others are perpetrators, or flawed in their own right. 

Natalie Haynes’ epic breathes life into the often forgotten, out outright ignored, voices of the women of Greece and Troy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, and Death

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

khaleesiofthegreatwhitenorth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

A little slow to start but even in those moments the content itself was well-written. A must read for anyone with any level of interest in the legends of Troy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Child death and Sexual violence

Minor: Child abuse