Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Castaways by Lucy Clarke

7 reviews

autismandniamh's review

adventurous 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

3.25

Descriptions of the island were very detailed but, ultimately, too repetitive. Plus I didn’t really grow to root for any of the characters. But the vivid (intense) atmosphere of this book was great!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

meganrae047's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Infertility

Minor: Sexual harassment and Death of parent

amberinbookland's review

medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Infertility, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Blood, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Alcohol

whatvictoriaread's review against another edition

mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Alcoholism, Grief, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Infertility, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

laureads34's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Excellent book, much better than I expected from reading the blurb. Each chapter keeps you hooked! There are constant twists and turns, I think the author left one part of the plot purposely easy to work out but the rest was completely unpredictable. Upon reflection, the ending was subtly eluded to in such a clever and unsuspected way! My only quarm, leaving this book at 4 stars, is that I found a lot of the descriptions repetitive, IE (not a direct quote) "I drank it in, I stood drinking in the view" etc. Still an excellent book!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Infertility, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Gaslighting and Grief

Sexism/misogyny is only portrayed by one character and is telling more of how some people of a certain mindset would act in the book's circumstances. Infertility/IFV is mentioned twice. Sexual assault is attempted but never written in exact words, the character says "I knew what would have happened" so goes into no depth. Suicidal thoughts occur in one scene but the word suicide is not mentioned in that context

kathyh's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Rape

field_of_books's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

2.0

Well, this book sucked.

Okay I’m going to try not to be 100% negative. But no, I didn’t enjoy this book.

This book was an average, three star, lacklustre thriller until I got to the end and it’s star rating took a nose dive out of the sky. Get it? Because they were in a plane crash? Ok…

So the book takes place from two perspectives, Lori and her sister Erin’s. As our story goes on I began to like Lori, she was resilient as all hell. But I never got attached to Erin, her character just wasn’t very interesting to me. So I spent her side of the book feeling quite detached. 

The pacing was a bit all over the place, if it were me I probably would have cut it down by 100 pages and made the pacing a bit more dicey!  

As I said I hated the ending, but not everyone will! 

Basically I thought this book sucked but I don’t wanna make out that this is the worst book I’ve ever read or anything. It’s not even the worst I’ve read all year! 

🐙🐙/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Infertility, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent and Grief