Reviews tagging 'Child death'

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

9 reviews

ashleysweitz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism, Dementia, Death, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Ableism, Trafficking, and Child death

cato_o's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, and Terminal illness

karwc's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

One of the best writers of our time. This book is poetry because of Hosseini’s beautiful style of writing. It will tear your heart in half like The Kite Runner did.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Grief, Murder, Child death, War, Terminal illness, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Death

grapefruitjuice's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Classism, Chronic illness, Child death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, and War

schnarlie's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Dementia, Abandonment, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Murder, and War

Minor: Physical abuse and Cancer

ginbat's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Hosseini's writing always has a poetic feeling to it, I would say this book is of course more "enjoyable" than The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns if only because our characters are not subject to the same amount of violence. This story is more.. Floaty? The only thing keeping it from 5 stars is that the ending feels too much like ATSS.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, Abandonment, War, Chronic illness, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Infertility

Minor: Child death

Adoption trauma

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Dementia, Terminal illness, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism and Child death

Minor: Excrement

miamcmillan's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

i started crying at page 54 and then i just couldn’t stop everything hosseini writes is utterly beautiful. i loved all the stories and how they wove into one another, i loved the exploration of youth and age and family and love. i can’t get over the way everything intertwines i feel like i’ve been given a gift but i’ve also been devastated.

the bit with adel was so well done but i feel is slightly lost just because of the magnitude of the main stories like you read it from the child’s perspective but you recognise the truth that his father’s a war criminal and his acceptance of his own acceptance of it if that makes sense it was absolutely agonising

i loved everything about it i feel like rereading it again immediately i just can’t stop thinking about it. just amazing and sensitive and brutal and everything under the sun i want to say thank u to khaled hosseini for writing this book tbh <3 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Dementia, Medical content, Terminal illness, Violence, and War

natanidae's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Infertility

Minor: Child death and Suicide attempt