Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

63 reviews

kitza2000's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Antisemitism, Blood, Child death, and War

Minor: Abandonment

clapyourshands's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Racism

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Infertility

thefandomphantom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Antisemitism, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment and Child death

alyssakaluf's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

Minor: Grief, Suicide, and Abandonment

emorine13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Very sad story taking place in Germany in WWII from the perspective of a child as she grows up. A heart-wrenching tale of wonder and a thirst for knowledge that helps keep a family together.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Racism, and War

Minor: Abandonment, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

This book details one little girl's experience during WWII and

her adopted family hiding a Jew

. The details aren't gore-y, but they are descriptive.

johannslauren15's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.5

I like this book, but it was really slow and probably would not read again since it became so daunting to read. I really did fell in love with the character, but I am just really torn about this story. I feel like I would have just read from 0-400 if I knew what was going to happen (plus Death just spoiled the story and did not make the ending so interesting I guess. I think Death's perspective was interesting but not as perplexed as I thought it would/should've been even if he does this all the time. When I think back upon what I read from this book, I just end up very confused about what I was reading.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, and War

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Misogyny, and Vomit

cassandrakarwaski's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Abandonment

bookgal1990's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, War, Genocide, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Gore, Grief, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, and War

ryleehmln's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, War, Violence, Child death, Hate crime, Death of parent, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Genocide

venetiana's review against another edition

Shameful. Romanticising the hardships of a young Jewish orphaned girl. Clearly written by someone with enormous amounts of privilege and poor knowledge of the reality of wartime Europe. I got rid of the book as soon as I could.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Abandonment and War