Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

135 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Transphobia, Self harm, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Acephobia/Arophobia, Deadnaming, and Medical content

Minor: Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

blombern's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

Very interesting concept. It's all about a boarding school for children who return from portal worlds and are not accepted by their parents who want them to get better. I personally did not like this book, as it turned into a murder mystery fairly quickly. I also didn't like the explanations of the portal worlds themselves as they were put into weird categories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

lahars_little_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Violence, Death, Murder, Medical content, and Child death

lsmith725's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

This is such a cute yet heavy fantasy about children who have gone through a different doorway or portal and wish to return.  They are all thrown together to deal with their grief, of sorts, at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.  As the tale unfolds, the children discover that even though they each desire nothing more than to go back to the world they discovered, some will go to greater lengths to get there.  Soon enough, danger begins striking the home and it seems to be very unsafe.

This was an absolutely charming middle grade novel.  There is magic and whimsy, but also plenty of discussion of belonging, friendship, changing identities.  To me this felt like a mash up of (but not a knockoff to) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Miss Peregrine's Home for Wayward Children.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Violence and Transphobia

Minor: Grief

jramoly's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Sexual content

kyra_joy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

I don’t know what I was expecting when I picked this book up but it was amazing , a great story, written well with fun characters and exciting places to explore in further books. Can’t wait to get to the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Child death

razorfangz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Body horror, Child abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief and Eating disorder

Minor: Deadnaming

Eye gore

librarymouse's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

This book has great asexual representation! The mystery is not too hard to solve, but it's explored in a fun and engaging way. I enjoy the different moral alignments of the characters and how they affiliate and differ depending on the worlds that drew them in. Jack is a particular favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Deadnaming

Minor: Animal death

Eating disorder tagged because there is a major focus on the main character's eating habits and her loss of a need to eat in a way that would sustain people due to the changes to her body as imposed by the rules in the Halls of the Dead.

adorablyandie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

This is a perfect story. No notes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Transphobia

huntress's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Dysphoria and Acephobia/Arophobia