Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

93 reviews

martereadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Blood, Child death, Violence, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Gore, Gaslighting, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and War

spacecadelliot's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

kingsteph'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death and Child abuse

Minor: Rape

charlottebreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

CW/TW: Death, violence, slavery, genocide, torture
Age Rating: 13 - 15 years

- This book includes some heavy topics 
- The plot was interesting
- I loved Zelie and Amari's friendship
- I also loved the sibling relationship between Zelie and Tzain
- Tzain was great
- I liked Inan
- Basically, all the characters are great <3 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Genocide and Slavery

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War

strange's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

2.25

This book was all around underwhelming for me, but it was easy to read and while I didn’t particularly care much for the characters I found the plot and world compelling enough to where it wasn’t difficult for me to get through the book. I’m not sure if I’ll continue with the series, the ending does interest me but I have a feeling this book won’t stick in my mind very long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Genocide

kristinesreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Rape

issiwerro's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and Child death

oliverreeds's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

everything i wrote was deleted. i spent 15 minutes on this review. the short and skinny since i won’t be rewriting it: the characters are waffle-y

looking at you, inan and you zeili

i also just realized i’ve done ever spoiler up until this point wrong. the romances should have been gay 

looking at YOU zeili and amari bc the straight romances have. no. chemistry. at. all.

and lastly i was confused on a plot point which could have been my fault

the raid was only like ten years ago and that’s when magic went away when king whoever interrupted a ritual but this ritual only occurs every hundred years and it’s coming up agajn after only ten… maybe i misread though

anyways good book but should have been gayer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, and Panic attacks/disorders

scribblerrva's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This was a great book from beginning to end. The only reason I didn’t give it the full 5 is because only 3 of the 4 central characters had their side of the story told. Other than that, it was a well-written and engaging read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, and Torture