Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

95 reviews

bladebailey's review

dark funny reflective slow-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? Yes

3.5

Night of the Living Rez gathers short stories in an alternating format, exploring life and identity as a Penobscot person in the 21st century. Talty delves into the topics of family, coming of age, addiction, and others with a straightforward writing style and simple prose. The audiobook narrator does an excellent job of bringing dimension to the dialogue, turning every character tangible and human even more than the writing. I definitely recommend checking the book out, but it wasn't the most successful for me as I found it boring at times and said a lot without actually getting very far. Maybe that was the point, and every book has an audience, and I think I sit comfortably on the fringes of this one's.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Child death

kaywhiteley's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Vomit, Drug abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Child death and Miscarriage

Minor: Sexual assault and Car accident

lizzie24601's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.0

Some of the stories about David as a child are good (especially the two about Paige's pregnancies), but overall nothing very exciting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Alcohol, Drug use, Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Dementia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Miscarriage, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, Blood, Racial slurs, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

bubblegrunge's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Child death

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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: Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Cursing, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Dementia, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Violence, and Racial slurs

Minor: Child death

m47n's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Colonisation

bjdarby's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Addiction

Moderate: Mental illness, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Child death, Racism, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Rape

bkwrm1317's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

3.75

Talty’s collection of connected short stories is intense, real, and dark. Reflecting on the reality of an Indigenous Tribal Penobscot family and some of their connections brings you to witness their humor, grief, addiction, culture, food, economic reality, and more. 

Pacing medium-slow made it harder for me to get through (and short stories aren’t my fave). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Sexual assault, Colonisation, and Child death

Minor: Vomit

sundayfever's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Dark but good read. Collection of short stories strung together. Nice to read an indigenous story set here in Maine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Vomit, Child death, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Violence, Colonisation, Racism, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Animal cruelty

ohnoitscoco's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Car accident, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death and Grief