Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Everfair by Nisi Shawl

4 reviews

mscalls's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Racism, Gore, Grief, Colonisation, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Trafficking, War, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Medical content

sarah984's review

challenging informative slow-paced

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

2.0

I really wanted to like this book because the concept is so cool: a steampunk story where African characters drive King Leopold out of the Congo. Unfortunately, that's not really what this book was. There were so many characters but hardly any of them were African, and the disjointed way the story was told with so many POV characters in little vignettes over several decades (Leopold is gone around the 50% mark and the rest is kind of bland politicking around WWI) that it was hard to really care what happened to any individual character. The conflict about the characters who helped drive Leopold out living on illegally purchased land is interesting but barely addressed. There are so many huge age gap romances for no reason, which is a pain because there is way too much focus on the romances considering how little time each character has to make an impression.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Homophobia, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Murder, Slavery, Violence, War, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Ableism, Excrement, Genocide, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Rape, and Sexual content

untraveledworld's review against another edition

adventurous challenging fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Death and Child death

isabeldotml's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Gore, Racism, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia