Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

207 reviews

rosehw's review against another edition

emotional funny sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Blood, Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, and War

dniespal's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Violence, Grief, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Deportation, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Classism, Genocide, Death of parent, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Slavery, War, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

moonyleo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Child death

Moderate: Rape and Slavery

kamrynharned's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

This was a really fascinating retelling of the Trojan war, but in the perspective of all the women involved.  From the goddesses who started it to the women who were sacrificed as offerings, it tells the familiar tale of the war through their lenses.  I liked the discussion on war - how it doesn’t just ruin the ones who are fighting in it.  In many cases, death is better than slavery. The book is gory and often horrifying. Sadly, because it’s mainly fiction, there is no silver lining to the brutality.  There’s no happy ending or good that comes from bad, just a bunch of people who were damaged for good by the trauma they experienced.  That being said, it was beautifully written and I did finish the whole thing.  There was a very large cast of characters,  but the character development was good for all of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, and War

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective 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

4.0

Follows the lives of various women in or related to troy
Penelopes buts were the best
Odysseus is not like other men😏

‘Who could love a coward… someone for whom the alternative is loving a corpse.’

‘That is what it means to refuse a god. It is to be driven mad.’

‘Waiting is the cruelest thing i have ever endured.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Slavery, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual violence, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, and War

natashaball's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

Very clever book written from the point of the women involved in the Troyan war and the impact on women, who although not causing the war or devastation, have to deal with the consequences. I especially liked the letters from Penelope to Odysseus. Not sure that there needed to be so many chaacters however, I think some got a bit lost as we only had a few pages about them - it might have been better to leave them out or reduce other character's pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Grief, War, and Slavery

leic01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: War and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Rape

Minor: Slavery

elysian's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative 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

4.0

Title: A Thousand Ships
Author: Natalie Haynes
Rating: 4/5
TWs: Basically everything that happens in Greek myths. Yk whats up

The book is about the untold stories of the female characters in the Illiad. As someone who loves diving deep into Greek Myth this one was so awesome and refreshing. Focusing on the characters of Penelope, Hecuba, Briseis, Iphigenia and so many many more.

Characters only have their stories told briefly - standing in the shadow of their son's and husband's.

This was joyful and informative read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, and Slavery

nyla_okayyy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death of parent, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Death, Grief, Sexual assault, Infidelity, and Animal death

tenpn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective fast-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

5.0

“ when did people start thinking the muse serves the poet, rather than the other way around.”

Heartbreaking, exciting, beautifully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, War, Slavery, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Gore, Violence, and Child death

It is unshrinking in its testimony about the consequences of war for women.