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A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

26 reviews

sarahjulianna's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, and Addiction

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Vomit, Infidelity, Abandonment, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

pikkumarja's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

Todella vaikuttava kirja ekokatastrofista, vastuusta ja sukupolvien erosta. Rakastan lasten näkökulmasta kerrottuja kirjoja ja se yhdistettynä tähän ilmastonmuutoksen aiheuttamiin vitsauksiin muodostaa kokonaisuuden, joka ei jätä kylmäksi. Kirja on todella raju.

Täysiä tähtiä kirja ei kuitenkaan saa, koska välillä joitain kritiikkejä ja ajatelmia oli kirjoitettu ehkä vähän liiaksi auki. Vertauskuvallisuus ja kaoottisuus sopi kirjaan paljon paremmin.

Edit: Kirja jäi niin vahvasti pyörimään mieleen, että kävin nostamassa arviota!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Alcohol, and Drug use

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Gun violence

cryptofauna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

oh my god oh my god. i give anything that makes me cry five stars. just the right amount of pretentious. extremely well written, amazing thoughts about god, characters i felt extremely connected to even though in the grand scheme of things you don’t get to know all of them that well. incredible. i think there are definitely some issues if i dig deeper into it but i have to abide by my cry = five stars rule until i’m more emotionally vulnerable i guess. finished it all in one sitting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Gun violence, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, and Vomit

mclairemcc's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Violence

tifftastic87's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

A Children's Bible follows a group of teenagers and their younger siblings in what is essentially a multi-family vacation gone wrong. Giving a plot synopsis is difficult as the story is told from an unreliable narrator who also doesn't really know what is going on. We start off with the parents being uninvolved and the kids kind of being on their own, that is a continued thread we follow. What happens in the second half is a climate disaster in terms of a flood that leads to apocalypse style events where we have raiders and bandits and various illnesses. All of these are told from the first person rambling perspective of a, likely 17ish-year-old, teen. 

The characters are incredibly two dimensional. We don't know enough about them to really care as the narrator is telling us back conversations and she doesn't really like anyone other than her younger brother, who is maybe around 10? The only real character we get info about is the younger brother, Jack, who gets a bible as a gift and sees it as a metaphor for everything happening. 

The themes in here are kind of unclear, or heavy handed. It was clear there is a climate crisis and we can blame the older generation and the wealthy for that. However, the conversation never really happens anymore than at a childish level of "you did this!" There was a current of biblical stuff which was... unusual? 

Lastly, there was only one character who was described as having "olive toned skin" and he was the character that took the most abuse from the plot. There was a lot of fat-phobia as well that was just unnecessary.  

Content Warning that isn't an option in the drop down

death during child birth and closed door sexual interactions among miners

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Violence, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Death, Cursing, Torture, Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Homophobia, Grief, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Racism

btothebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

3.75

What the fuck did I just read? Like its good, but so many times I just stopped and thought “WTF?” 

There’s only a few elements to pinpoint the timeline, but it just feels rushed and not at the same time. There’s an element of Lord of the Flies (but better) and Station Eleven to it all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Child death, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Blood

atamano's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual content

alexg52's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Gun violence

dawntin's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death of parent, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fatphobia and Homophobia

bookishcori's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

2.5

Apocalyptic story with irreverent teens and their apathetic parents in an allegory about climate change/destruction. This was weird and fine. Majorly underwhelming. Also felt like an adult trying to write how they think teenagers act/talk. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Drug use

Birth trauma