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The Missing of Clairdelune by Christelle Dabos

4 reviews

friendly_neighborhood_grandma's review against another edition

This is an incredibly intricate world and it is fascinating. It did take me a while to get through this one but i probably will listen to the next one. This contains a lot of murder and brutality just be aware. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Confinement, Medical content, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Dementia, Child abuse, Death, Abandonment, Torture, Alcohol, Murder, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicide, Child death, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

rorikae's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative mysterious tense slow-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

'The Missing of Clairdelune' by Christelle Dabos is the second installment in the Mirror Visitor quartet. It does a great job of progressing Ophelia's understanding of the world she has been brought to as well as her relationship with Thorn. 
This book centers around mysterious disappearances and who is behind them. I found that having the mystery at the center was a great way to focus the book while the overarching plotline of the quartet also progressed in the background. 
We get some really important information in this book and I think it goes a long way toward making the world feel more real. In the first book, I felt much like Ophelia, thrown into a complex and often confusing world. Though this did a great job of making me connect with Ophelia as a character, I did prefer this book because Dabos' world is finally becoming more clear. 
I am even more excited to continue on to the next installment and learn more about the world. The character work in this book was great and I hope this continues to be a focus in the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Gaslighting and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent

quaint_reader's review

adventurous mysterious 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

Most of the book is medium paced, however I have found that every book in this series gets much faster paced near the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Bullying

aunteaandbiscuits's review

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Dementia, Medical content, Murder, Racism, and Terminal illness

The society is harsh, but elite and elegant.

The violence and debauchery that takes place is treated as a normal circumstance, not a torturous burden, if that makes any difference to anyone