Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

35 reviews

bakerreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Tragic, haunting, dark, and beautiful.
This story is set in the near future, where most every wild animal is extinct. We follow Franny Stone, an unreliable narrator with a dark past, as she tracks the last known flock of Arctic terns on their final migration.
This story is fairly depressing, but there’s a found family aspect that I just absolutely adored and loved how the characters interacted with one another (for the most part). McConaghy is amazing at writing complex, and realistically flawed characters. This is a story about love, and loss, and finding your place in the world, and I thought it was perfect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

hadley_w's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I liked the writing and the topic of climate change (well more like it made me super sad but it is still a great reminder to do my part to help our planet). I just was not expecting the uniqueness of the main character and her life/ lifestyle. Even though I liked it at some points and it made for beautiful one-liners, it mainly made me feel disconnected from her and sometimes annoyed me. That’s not to say uniqueness is bad at all, just that in this case it didn’t hit the way it could have if that makes sense. Overall, I liked it but it wasn’t amazing like I was hoping. It also gave me weird dreams of the world ending and all the animals dying so there’s that too lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Miscarriage, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit

katehaswell's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide, Violence, and Car accident

hollygon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Violence, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Murder

babblingbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

So sad and hopeful and heart breaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer

The sexual assault tag is for an attempted sexual assault, and there is some victim blaming by other characters towards the protagonist. In addition to the Suicidal Thoughts tag there is an attempted suicide which is described in some detail. The cancer mention is VERY brief, a side character explains why she shaved her hair, to fundraise for a cancer charity.