Reviews tagging 'Child death'

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127 reviews

butlere's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child death and Animal death

remy_licked_my_book's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

I felt like I was missing a story. There seemed to be a lot of back story to each character that kept being sort of explored but not. That's the reason it's not a 5 star for me. Outside of that I liked the flaws of each character. I do think this story couldn't have been fleshed out deeper and made longer but it was a neat little thriller with great twists until the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Body horror

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Child death, Murder, Death, Death of parent, and Confinement

Minor: Religious bigotry, Child abuse, and Sexual content

k3nzi3's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

love love love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Violence, and Death

emzhay's review

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

Cool concept. Poor execution. It was paced way too slow, and there’s no atmosphere or sense of fear. For a death game story, there’s very little gore. Most of the death are off screen. The characters are so vague that many of them blur together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Sexism, and Racism

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cursing, Blood, Gore, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Confinement, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and War

ratloaf's review

dark tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Death of parent, Abandonment, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Classism

Minor: War

unluckycat13's review against another edition

dark hopeful fast-paced

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

3.0

The book is overall a pretty enjoyable supernatural horror. It avoids a lot of the tropes of both the slasher and battle royale genre. A lot of the characters are surprisingly likable even when they are a bit less educated on things like LGBT issues or race which is rare in fiction in general. The main thing that takes this down for me is the ending is so drawn out and unresolved. It still felt like Mac was 'deferring responsibility' in her solution so to speak, when taking responsibility was such a main part of her arc. A lot of the ending feels like it was making things up as it went along. 

It was a strong point for me that it wasn't a gross book despite being horror. Overall decent. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Child abuse

Moderate: Gore

ezwolf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This was kind of like Cabin in the Woods meets the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. But queer and with a dash of found family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Gore, Violence, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, and Sexism

traa's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Classism, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Gore, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Medical content, Infidelity, Medical trauma, War, Self harm, and Racial slurs

nnylelocin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Gore, Murder, and Physical abuse