Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

128 reviews

rebeccaschierakamelu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Beautiful writing, but a bit too dark, even for me. Only one character I really wanted to root for, and the rest had history or flaws that seemed to be too big to all belong in one book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Child death

larade's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Rape, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Alcohol

odrib's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, and Car accident

jdesimoney's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Violence

pocket_owl's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

__lucebrennan's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

A fab start to this year of books! I was absolutely hooked from the beginning, so many twists and turns, and so well written, loved the darkness of it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

lilylaflair's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Alcoholism

cpachet's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The many points of view made this book interesting, although I found the plot itself to be very simple/straightforward at the end of the day. I also weirdly didn’t really care about solving the murder or who did it, possibly because the victim wasn’t compelling or painted in a very kind light. I feel like a horrible person! Going to self-evaluate now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child abuse, Murder, and Alcohol

girloflamancha's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

calchick's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

A young man is found murdered and three women who are suspects are connected to him and eventually to each other. Their paths intertwine as the police try to figure out what happened. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Car accident