Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

83 reviews

beanqueen_'s review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Really enjoyed the premise of the book, although it can be a bit bleak if you think about the state of our world for too long.

Wish that there was a better focus on just a couple of timelines, rather than bouncing back and forth between several. I felt some of them just muddled up the story and made me less invested in the main ones. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Death

Moderate: Child death

falloutrocker's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

elmtreebooks's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

It’s dark, but beautiful. It’s a lingering meditation on grief, trauma and love. I didn’t really enjoy reading it, and I’d never reread it, and there is only a very few people I’d recommend it too, but I did find it lovely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

Moderate: Child death

deedeeroo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, and Death

megan_martha_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Beautiful haunting book. View of a terrifying and still hopeful future. Reminder that we are never to small to do even just a little. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child death

lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

5.0

Your absence has never felt crueller. I've never hated you until now. I've never loved you more.

Absolute work of art. There's poetry in McConaghy's prose. I could swim in her storytelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Car accident

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

rachelshulman's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

jaimiejaimiejaimie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

It's a 3.5? This book was strange for me. Franny was so outside of anyone I could imagine, and the events were so improbable I had a hard time with it. I appreciated the diverse characters, but at the same time they seemed there as a backdrop to a white woman's plight. It was still engrossing, but it felt like a book I would have appreciated more as a college student and had more drama in my gut. The audiobook narrator does a pretty darn good job with all of the accents and brings the story alive with her acting, so there's that. And as a content note, I found it very difficult to get through certain parts as the mother to a son and daughter. 

But also, what the heck did I just read? Did anyone grow? Did anyone learn anything? What was real? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Animal death, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Child death

amyeicher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Miscarriage and Child death

mkwreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Car accident, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual assault, Death, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Blood