Reviews tagging 'Child death'

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

32 reviews

mooncandy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Antisemitism, Medical content, Outing, Colonisation, and Classism

harlequin79's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Classism

moony_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I don’t really think I could possibly ever find the words to describe what I feel right now. 

In Memoriam is sensational. Beautifully raw and gripping with the most talented prose and narration I’ve read in a while. It’s intimate, it’s genuine, it’s moving and it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. 

I don’t think I have it in me to write a full review now, but I might be able to later. It’s just an instant classic and I don’t have words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

atamano's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Sexism and Death of parent

echolli's review against another edition

4.5

Read this if you love to deeeeeply understand and empathise with characters. Alice Winn takes you through every thought and experience and relationship that forms them, from their privileged upbringing and class ignorance to the harrowing things they learn in the trenches. You understand every decision they make and thing they say, because you’ve been there with them. If injury detail and death isn’t your thing, I would give this one a miss mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

xeroxi's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Antisemitism and Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent

ddaria's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

Feels so real that it's hard to read. Especially when realizing how many people have lived through it. But the writing and the characters are beautiful through and through. I wouldn't change a thing about the book, it reads like a classic from start to finish. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Medical trauma, and War

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism

c0bbled0gs's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Didn't necessarily love the ending / last 3rd. Not that it was bad but I preferred earlier in the book. But it was really good overall

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, and War

Minor: Homophobia, Mental illness, and Suicide

spellbindingtomes's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

dkayayay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was equal parts devastatingly fucking brutal yet so painfully enduringly hopeful. Fuck war.

(Also make sure to read the content warnings if you're planning on reading!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide