Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

117 reviews

hgunsch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

Minor: Stalking, Rape, Domestic abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, and Medical trauma

carolineeckels's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence, Child death, and War

Minor: Sexual violence

katiesbeengone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, and Dementia

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Torture, Murder, Blood, Grief, Violence, Child death, Cursing, and Self harm

Minor: Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, and Addiction

xosirenox's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Suicide, Medical content, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

ncm5228's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

If you like the movie Inception, this book is for you!  One of the best I’ve read in a while. At the same time, be aware of the content warnings- it is definitely not a light read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Self harm, Child death, Mass/school shootings, Genocide, Violence, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Dementia, Drug use, and Blood

While lots of horrific things mentioned in the content warnings do occur, it is not the main focus of the book at all, so unless the mention of certain things is especially triggering to you, don’t let the content warnings fully dissuade you from reading the book!

ripxw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, Grief, Genocide, and Child death

Minor: Death of parent

bobbi's review against another edition

tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Dementia, and Child death

mar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

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

3.75

very readable sci-fi thriller :]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Death, Grief, Gore, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Confinement, Gun violence, and Car accident

Minor: Mass/school shootings

othersociologist's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, and Drug use

Minor: Drug abuse

carolina_has_an_idea's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I listened to the audiobook. Wow. This story dragged on for a really long time. When everything is revealed I thought “oh I must be getting close to the end.” No. I was only 50% through the book. I keep listening because I needed something to listen to while I was doing chores around the house.

If you watch/read enough time travel fiction you can guess what the solution is pretty easily on. It was a very frustrating listening to them fail over and over again. Just go to the first timeline idiots. That’s always the solution. I also did not understand why Helena had to go back with all the memories alone. Barry could’ve done the same thing and it would’ve saved Helena from having to explain everything to him. I also did not like when Barry was explaining the meaning of life. 50 cent did a better and more concise job in his song “Many Men.”

Too long. I also remember not liking Dark Matter by the same author. Maybe their writing is not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, War, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Confinement