Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon

9 reviews

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Incest, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Gore, Suicide, Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Infertility, Medical content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Miscarriage, Violence, and War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, and Self harm

flyintothestorm's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Pregnancy

simply_fran's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Rape, War, Violence, and Infertility

beckcatbooks's review against another edition

4.5

This is one of the stronger books in the series, but still could have done with wayyyyyy less of the subplots. But the Jamie & Claire stuff was GOOD, and it was so lovely to see them with many of their kids and grandkids. I didn't even mind the Brianna & Roger & kids arc. The return to home at the end of the book for all of these characters was just 🥹🥹🥹. Now let my babies REST. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, War, Gore, Slavery, Child death, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Misogyny

knunderb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

A bit slow at the end, but overall this is probably my favorite Outlander book so far. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, War, and Sexual content

cassidys_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, and Kidnapping

eire2011's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

 This is another wonderful addition to this series which has become one of my favorite series as once I get into the story, it's hard to stop until I'm at the end and then I keep wanting more!

I loved being able to read about Claire, Jamie, Ian, Brianna, Roger, the kids, Rollo and some other characters that have become a part of the Fraser clan though my heart ached for the losses that happened in this book though I knew they were coming because I happened to accidentally look at some spoiler reviews but my heart still ached.

I am so very happy that Ian and Rachel are married in this book and am so excited to see what their future is like which will hopefully be filled with as much happiness as possible for them who have had their fair share of losses and struggles.

I continue to love reading about Claire and Jamie who have also had to deal with their fair share of hardships and I'm so glad that they are able to eventually make it back to Fraser's ridge.

Looking forward to the next book and I will certainly be sad when the series does eventually end. Highly recommend this series in general!

Trigger warnings: violence, ptsd, death by suicide, death of a pet, teen pregnancy, war, fire, death 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, and Suicide

karingforbooks's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

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

3.0

Competent writing, good researching but too bloody long! And I still hate her pacing in the last hundred pages. I did appreciate that I could hear Hamilton playing in my head but Claire is still supercilious and able to fix everything ven in the eighteenth century and I don’t get bri and roger’s timeline. We didn’t need William at all and the same stuff keeps happening to Claire and Jamie! They’re walking targets and at some point, that doesn’t happen as often as it does to them. It’s just overly done and I skimmed a solid half of this book because it was extraneous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

Minor: Rape and Murder

johannab's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and Violence