Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

10 reviews

bella_cavicchi's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

This has my name written all over it, Daverley's stunning, understated writing the clear highlight. It feels particularly resonant when questions of what one (I) wants to do in life, à la Mary Oliver, weigh heavily.

Recommend, and with pleasure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Death, Sexual content, Infidelity, Cancer, and Medical content

Moderate: Eating disorder, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Abandonment, and Alcoholism

Minor: Pregnancy

jhansell's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child death, and Cancer

ashley_turch's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Toxic relationship

lauren_may_reads's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Child death, and Abandonment

alexazilla's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

very similar to tomorrow x3, a realistic love story. real, raw, and emotional with a lot of life’s realities woven into a tale of fiction. reading it made me tear up not just because of the story, but in that this is how life truly is: not fair.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide attempt, Grief, and Self harm

mattiekc's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, and Death

gabrielastbr's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcohol, Cancer, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Child death

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Vomit, and Animal death

eliza_enthralled's review

emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

The lack of speech marks was super annoying. Why is this a thing? There were times where I couldn’t tell if a character was still speaking or just thinking/narrating which was jarring. The numerous terrible decisions made by the main characters were painful, but I suppose there would be no plot without this. The ending I wanted happened literally on the last page so overall I was just left feeling sad and frustrated, which were my feelings throughout the entire book, and I’m not into that. However, my hope for the two main characters kept me going and I found myself able to read it fairly quickly so it definitely wasn’t boring. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, Cancer, Child death, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Body shaming

Minor: Suicide

rhi_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

brittonmc1221's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Cancer, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Child death, Medical content, and Death