Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

68 reviews

ivana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, and Sexual content

parksvslibraries's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Death, Child death, and Grief

peachani's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Biphobia

lparks90's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

sydresnik's review against another edition

dark sad

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Transphobia, Incest, and Homophobia

bodiesinbooks's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Blood, Deadnaming, Infertility, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death

tabitha_isabelle's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Violence

kylamunoz's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

Wow. I think I’ll have to read this book every year for the rest of time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Sexual content

blakethebookeater's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Oh boy.

I did not like this book.

While I did appreciate the themes in this book, and Vivek's exploration of gender and sexuality...it just fell flat for me.

And actually it was worse than than in some areas, because this book depicts a loving and "beautiful" incestuous relationship between cousins. It was extremely unnecessary and uncomfortable, given there are also MULTIPLE sex scenes between the two young boys.

There were some aspects in the back half that I did enjoy, such as the mystery around how Vivek died, but at the end of the day once the incest started, I just didn't care about any of the characters anymore. I'm sorry, I REALLY wish I could have loved this book as much as everyone else does, but it was just really not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Homophobia, Incest, and Transphobia

Moderate: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Deadnaming and Domestic abuse

bookishtabby's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Violence

Minor: Domestic abuse and Physical abuse