Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise

3 reviews

bellebookstitch666's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Animal cruelty, Torture, and Body horror

Minor: Bullying, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

thebooksanctum's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.0

A brilliant take on Peter Pan, I loved how creepy the whole thing felt, and the twist around the original tale! Wendy was a badass of a character, and I loved seeing her daughter's POV too!
I'm not entirely sure I understood what Peter was in the end, but such a good book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Child abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, War, Kidnapping, Murder, and Racial slurs

elena2000rr's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.5

Very good book with an interesting twist to the story. Well written, although it gets a bit heavy with the constant time jumps and the same repetitives ideas of the brothers' personalities, which makes you feel that the characters don't have much background and they end up a bit flat. It is somewhat slower at first but little by little you get more and more hooked. I recommend it, I especially liked the different experiences of Jane and Wendy and how, despite being mother and daughter, the author makes each one have their own personality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical trauma, Violence, Mental illness, Bullying, Racial slurs, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Animal death, Racism, and Torture

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and War