Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Drowning by T.J. Newman

62 reviews

dev921's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative sad tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Blood, Child death, and Cursing

lpdx's review

tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Grief, Blood, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Minor: Violence, Alcohol, and Cancer

princessdana36's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-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

4.5

This book was a super fast read. The action picks up from the very first page and doesn’t slow down. It slams into the end of the book and you’re left with tousled hair and whiplash. The writing was good, I just hope the science was/is real and I can hopefully get in an airplane again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Medical trauma

thatswhatshanread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

One of the most heart-pounding and adrenaline induced book comas I’ve ever had!! I was fully taken under (pun intended) by this modern day survival story. The times of the day when I wasn’t reading it, I was thinking about it. And the times I was reading it, I was thinking OH MY GOD HOW IS THIS GONNA END?!! HOW DO THEY SURVIVE A PLANE CRASH, AND THEN A PLANE SINKING??!!

I’d been wanting to read this for a long time now, but waited until after I’d taken several flights and had no more in the near future because, well, duh. This book is like your worst fears come to life, and the way Newman wrote it, it’s so scarily accurate. Not to mention, one of the main characters in this nightmare situation was named Shannon, so that only furthered how immersive the novel was to begin with. 

Alas, it was an incredible book. You’ll want to read it all in sitting, if possible. I’ve always found the stories behind disaster scenarios fascinating and this one was well-researched and supported to really make you understand what it would be like in real life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Confinement, Death, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Cursing

Moderate: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Bullying

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, and Terminal illness

mrs_v's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

5.0

All your fears in one book! Plane crash, trapped underwater, stormy weather! Troubled relationships 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

kt_apple's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

courtneyreadsitall's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

“It didn’t matter if you died in a car crash or peacefully in your sleep at 102 or if you drowned in a plane at the bottom of the ocean. The end result would be the same. And that was all life was. Shifting the balance, every day, to make room for joy and grace in whatever circumstances you’ve got before your time runs out.”

I could not put this one down. I read Falling a couple of years ago and liked it so when I saw this, I immediately borrowed it on my kindle. I loved this so much. I enjoyed every single character in this story and was kept on the edge of my seat the entire time. It’s very rare that a book makes me cry, but this made me cry multiple times. And THE ENDING!!!!! I didn’t expect it at all. 

This is one I’m going to purchase just so I can have it in my book collection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Child death, and Body horror

Plane crash

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was just wow. I’m blown away by the storyline and the characters bc they were written so well, it genuinely immerses you into the book to the point where you are just as anxious as the characters about what the next move of survival will be.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical trauma, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

ripxw's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Death

Moderate: Grief and Child death