Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

28 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Fatphobia, Child death, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Car accident, Suicide, and War

aseel_reads's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

The first half of this made me want to start swimming again and the second half of this made me want to hug my mum and a bit worried about the dementia genes in my family...

I really liked the way this was written, in the repetitive way of stating facts that advanced the plot, pretty unique and very easy to understand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Dementia, Medical content, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Minor: Racism and Child death

annie_crossings's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia

Moderate: Terminal illness, Colonisation, Death of parent, Death, and Child death

Minor: Animal death, Mass/school shootings, Infidelity, and Infertility

enlamont's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, War, Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, and Pregnancy

flower_mail's review

emotional reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Dementia, Ableism, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Confinement and War

Minor: Child death

bon_xx's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

Minor: Child death

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Racism, War, and Xenophobia

peggymay's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Racism, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Child death

mollyb13's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

This is a very different book than I expected it to be. I would describe this as a fictional, non-technical study on dementia from many points of view - daughter, a dementia care home, the dementia patient herself. I think the multiple POVs really added to the story and the writing was beautiful. Really a tough subject though and hard to read if you've had loved ones suffering with memory loss.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child death and Racism

jpitts's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death