Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Firestarter by Stephen King

46 reviews

itsbahb's review against another edition

3.0

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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

bookwormloverofbooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

forsakendaydreamer's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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: Yes

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I've had this book on my shelf for so long and I finally read it! I was debating whether to give it a 4.5 or a 5 star, but I did really love Andy and Charlie, so 5 it is :))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense medium-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism

Minor: Pedophilia

veronikar's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

chapters_and_pages's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was my second Stephen King book, and at this point, I’m convinced I’m setting myself up for heartbreak everything I open a King book… 

I had a feeling this book wasn’t going to have a happy ending and as much as I wanted to be wrong, unfortunately I wasn’t. Despite this, I really enjoyed this book!

Charlie was honestly adorable, I loved her and the relationship between her and her dad was one of, if not the best aspect of this book. Reading about all they went through because of The Shop just made you hope for them to escape and live a happy life even more. Unfortunately, this is Stephen King, so I’m sure you can guess how that went…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Death of parent

epeolatrist's review against another edition

3.75

dark tense medium-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism

Minor: Pedophilia

phantomgecko's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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At first I thought, oh cool retro 80s setting. Except the book was published in 1980. And man, running from the government was hard then, but imagine trying to run now.

Also, the computer usage was....amusing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

jonssweater's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Death of parent, War

Minor: Pedophilia, Racial slurs

nonfictionfeminist's review against another edition

3.25

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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A good story that's buried under too much character building (yes there is such a thing as too much). The mom is dead in the book, so I would cut her character building in half, particularly everything about her sexual struggle, which doesn't relate to anything. I would cut the villain perspectives during the chase scenes down to a paragraph or two at most and place them at the end of each chapter. I enjoyed the story, but it was so bogged down and hidden by a bunch of extra pages that just didn't need to be there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury