Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Bright and the Pale by Jessica Rubinkowski

4 reviews

pvbobrien's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, and Death

Minor: Torture, Body horror, Sexual harassment, and Ableism

clairew97's review

DNF’d this book 94 pages in. Absolutely hated it. The main character is so annoying, hates another girl on the trip for no reason, insta love, literally no explanation for anything that happens, questions nothing and the world building was nonexistent pretty much. Literally made zero sense and I couldn’t get any further. I’m upset about it because I was really looking forward to this one but not for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Grief, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail

criticalbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Violence, Grief, and Gaslighting

egurgens's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.25

First of all: I absolutely loved this book. The idea, the execution, is just fantastic. Plot twists, political plots, gods, monsters, some horror, romance, family, ugh. Just so good. The only thing that I struggled with is that there was a lot of down time

the mountain

where there could have been more plot. Also Valerias main character trait is her anger, which sorta makes sense, but I would’ve liked some more variation. I definitely need the next book, like, now. But it doesn’t come out until next March 😥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, Torture, Violence, and War