Reviews tagging 'Death'

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

985 reviews

erinfindlay's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense 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

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Loved loved loved!! Fantastic characters, story and setting. Heartbreaking and charming and all good things

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

hgpitt's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The writing was exquisite but the story so very sad I almost stopped reading. I’m glad I finished so I got to see the potential for hope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment

coralreef92's review against another edition

4.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment

gbrylinski's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence

edobs94's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Abandonment

happinessity's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny informative 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Classism

loesche312's review against another edition

4.75

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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An incredible read, with character development as strong as any book I've read. This book has changed my how I view the foster system, addiction, poverty, and personal trauma. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

gingerlocks25's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing and lose so much in between”.

For fans of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, this is a further story of the emotional turmoil and destruction of the opioid crisis in Appalachia in a modern day Oliver.

We hear about the pill mills, the communities fighting back, the weak succumbing to their end, the overdoses, the withdrawals and the dead on town names of Devil’s bathtub, Murder Valley and Hungry Mother.

Damon or “Demon” Copperhead has drawn the short straw in life, an orphan with a vengeful stepdad, playing foster family roulette, being used to work tobacco fields, pay families bills and struggling to not repeat the cycle. When a bad injury, a toxic relationship and addictions take over his life, we see Demon fall victim to his fate, circumstances and afflictions. All he wanted was to see the ocean and draw his superheroes, but when the incredibles became the incapables we realise this tale is a story of the communities ravaged by the opioid epidemic. 

This was a chunky read which may have been reason why I held off for a while, but I picked it up on an audiobook 2 for 1 deal recently and definitely recommend 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent

lmlanoux's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent

mwilson391's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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My boy Damon goes THROUGH IT. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know what year it was for the first quarter of the book, it was such a stark depiction of poverty. Odysseus in coal country.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide