Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

6 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Blood, War, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer and Vomit

Bombing and aftermath. Single, relatively brief scene of attempted rape.

audc's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative reflective sad slow-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

I don’t know if I liked the book, but it is 4star writing. It sparked an interest in maps that comes entirely from this book. 
You can tell the author spent a lot of time researching. 

I cared little for the characters and  the story started to drag towards the end. 

I dislike how Abu Sayeed died or that he died at all; like he had no place in this story.

This story led to a lot of reflections and new experiences. I also learned quite a bit - I was glad to also learn of the mundane. 
The female characters in this book are so strong. It’s so amazing.
There are a great many quotes and situations and questions. I think the best books make something in you shift just a bit and this has me asking lots of them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Animal death

chelsl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual violence, Death, War, Child death, Grief, Sexual assault, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

rworrall78's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.75

Gorgeous, challenging but uplifting. I loved the historical characters woven in to the story and the mythical and cultural ideas.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, War, Death of parent, Violence, and Child death

_fallinglight_'s review

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Sexual violence, Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Sexual assault

Minor: Vomit and Cancer

greymalkin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Lovely, lyrical book, with a "two parallel" stories that keeps the pace always at a cliffhanger.  If you didn't know much about the Syrian refugee crisis, this will open your eyes on the terrible human cost of the war and the scars (literal and emotional) that it will leave for generations to come.

Having the Nour and Rawiya stories was nice but I'd almost have liked the Rawiya story to not be framed as a "storytelling story" and was just the story of a girl from hundreds of years earlier.  It was not written in a cadence like a story, with details that didn't seem like they'd have been included an a lack of the extravagant details and descriptions and heightened adventure that I expected.  Still enjoyable if I ignored that it was supposed to be a story told to Nour.  Also, there were a few moments where I felt like dramatic situations were created, only to be resolved in an oddly flat way- like one character would run off and get lost and then be found easily by another character who wasn't even looking for them.  Or a central item that was brought up multiple times throughout the book, would suddenly disappear off screen and it's never noted again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Xenophobia