Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Dangerous Path by Erin Hunter

5 reviews

minoestrashrat's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is probably where the series peaks so far. Every major plot point in this book is chilling, highly emotional and absolutely terrifying. The slow realization of the truth is crazy well-written.

Swiftpaw and Bluestar will be missed, but I forgot that we never actually see their deaths from their perspective. After years and years of watching animations, you'd think that were the case.

Regardless, this was amazing. I can't wait to get to The Darkest Hour.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Gore, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Body horror

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, Grief, Animal death, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Murder, Death, War, and Child death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

rokinjaguar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Listen, the characters in this book are mostly defensive, incompetent, and make stupid decisions, but this book somehow slaps anyway. Fireheart acts like an idiot and a lot of problems could probably have been avoided if the characters made better decisions, but there’s so much I love about this book that I was able to overlook it. And to give Fireheart credit, Bluestar’s

mental and emotional decline in this book

is brutal. He should never have been named deputy, he’s not ready and

Bluestar is certainly doing nothing to help him

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Besides, the cats doing stupid stuff and worldbuilding and conflicts not making sense if viewed with scrutiny is a problem in every book, so it’s not unique to this one, just particularly bad. Once I decided to not take things very seriously and just have fun, the plot and Bluestar’s character scenes were gripping and so compelling! So much happens in this book, I had a blast! I also honestly teared up a little at the end. I just really enjoyed this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Dementia, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, Child death, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, and Excrement

lilacwhisker's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

I don’t care if you hate Bluestar, I LOVE her. Her character is layered and she has a crazy sad backstory. This is definitely her book— 5 stars!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Animal cruelty, Dementia, Child death, Animal death, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, and Death of parent

anne311's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

i miss

bluestar

so much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Violence, and War