Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

150 reviews

spelledlikesleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Murder, and Abandonment

minbyrnes's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I don’t know what it was about this book but I loved it so much. I think I preferred Hetty’s POV over Byatt’s but only because

I didn’t care about the scientists. I cared more about the girls on the island.

That ending where

they left the other girls to the bear and the jets broke me a little bit. I know Hetty and Reese did everything that caused the mess for Byatt so leaving everyone behind for her makes sense for them but phew.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Child death

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide

qu1rr3l's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

charleshasalibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

I wanted to give this book a chance despite the lower rating, but it was worse even than I expected. For context, I rarely if ever give a book less than 3 stars. But Wilder Girls earned it. First of all, the characters were completely undeveloped. I was supposed to apparently feel something about these girls' relationships to one another, but it's like we were thrown into the story halfway through and I was given no substantial background to understand their dynamics. So I didn't care about them or emotionally believe the story at all. Secondly, the writing truly felt like my middle school self wrote it. Over the top, trying too hard to be lyrical when it didn't need to be. It made the whole book feel even more cringe-worthy. Lastly, the plot! The plot was the one thing that kept me reading this book, because I found it so intriguing and wanted to understand the mystery. But the explanations were so poorly given. The ending in general was terribly executed. For someone who apparently felt so much guilt for what she'd done, the main character chose to be incredibly selfish at the end. I won't say more so as not to give spoilers, but all in all - I hate that this book got any hype at all. It truly feels like it was written by a 14 year old.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Self harm

greenlivingaudioworm's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

wishling's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Blood, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death

tkhenry99's review against another edition

3.5

had to sit with this for a minute but i think i liked it? i was surprised how violent it was tho. i didn’t really care for the romantic subplot, i felt like it should’ve either always been present or been super slow burn, but it kind of just came out of nowhere, there was exactly 1 scene where something “romantic” happened, and then it just never came up again? 

(also for everyone complaining about how unlikeable the characters are, that is literally the point of the book)

i think the ambiguous ending was fine, it really did not leave that much room for confusion.

like what does everyone think is going to happen next? the girls are in a boat heading to the mainland. it’s really not ambiguous at all

maybe work on ur reading comprehension skills if it felt too open ended :-/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, and Grief

auteaandtales's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide

gracelynnreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Death of parent

apolloniablooms's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

It really choked at the end, which felt rushed.  Overall glad I read it, but it feels like a shadow of books like Annihilation and Inspection which do the same thing but feel more complete.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail