Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Herzland by Téa Obreht

9 reviews

drskaninchen's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Animal death, Violence, Medical content, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Xenophobia, Racism, and Animal death

Minor: Islamophobia and War

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

quiettalker's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death and Murder

lanid's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Body horror, Gun violence, Child death, Blood, Death, and Animal death

nalandajo's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

mscalls's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, and Violence

ajoyr's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

keatynbergsten's review against another edition

mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.5

I enjoyed Nora’s story once I got into it but it took until well past halfway through the book to really get invested but just never could get into Lurie’s story and overall found the book to be super slow and hard to convince myself to pick up or keep reading.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

frillyflutee's review against another edition

emotional mysterious relaxing sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

It took a while for me to get into, but it's now one of my 2020 favs (and one of the few that made me cry!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death, Grief, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Dementia, and Infidelity