Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

11 reviews

laurenbaggy's review

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Bullying

darumachan's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

The writing seemed underdeveloped, especially when it came to pacing and timing of how information about the characters was introduced. In particular, the dissatisfaction that the MC was feeling was full blown from the start, but just kept getting repeated so that it made her come across as bratty and selfish, when more texture and variety of her internal world would have made her much more sympathetic. I also thought the house had a surprisingly small role for a book that made its title about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

kbojan's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying

mattyb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Toxic friendship, Classism, and Injury/Injury detail

lycheeteareads's review

adventurous 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Bullying

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Toxic friendship and Injury/Injury detail

lja207's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.0

Read this to my 7yr old and we both really enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Child death

typedtruths's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Bullying

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

➸ Trigger warnings for minor blood and injury depiction, grief and loss depiction (theme), death of a mother and father in a house fire mentioned, death of an adopted grandmother (on-page), death of a child from illness mentioned, housefire (on-page), bullying, and mentions of a homeless child.

archivofrances's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Grief, and Classism

jeanniea's review

lighthearted slow-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

2.75

The main character appeared to face and reface similar obstacles within herself and her growth was a roller coaster ride, tho i suppose that's how real life growth is. It was difficult to relate to the mc, but she's also a child. I expected more consistency in the mc and her gradual learning, but it took this character LOTS of trial and error to get to where she got.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Bullying, Grief, and Toxic friendship

bitterseason's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Child death, and Death of parent