Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh

3 reviews

hkingcrab's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

A slow burn and suspense novel about kids and a futuristic world that parallels colonialism <3 through space travel. I still think about these characters and this story even after a couple years since reading. I would definitely reread it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Blood, Colonisation, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

nyoom's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, Antisemitism, and Xenophobia

sarah984's review

dark emotional slow-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

2.0

This book was way too slow and boring for me - the first really exciting to occur in the book happened around the 76% mark. Most of the book was just the teen characters arguing and complaining about everything. It doesn't make sense to me that any of these people were cleared to fly. They all have extremely obvious issues, their personalities clash constantly (they will have to live together in a confined space for 23 years!) and they always seem to take the opportunity to make a bad decision. The religious aspects were also really off-putting to me, and it's weird how the writing leans so hard into psychological issues but always seems to shy away from racism and colonialism when they come up.

There were a few quotes I liked (plus the one exciting thing and a couple of the adult characters) but it's not enough to ever recommend this to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Minor: Racism