Reviews tagging 'Death'

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

5 reviews

girlonabookshelf's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, Physical abuse, Gore, Child abuse, and Child death

emmajh91's review

challenging emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Physical abuse, Violence, Ableism, Death, and Torture

ash_pj21's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, and Bullying

icecreamemperor's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.25

A little less than I was hoping for, but still pretty good -- couldn't help but compare it in my head to The Panopticon (Jenni Fagan), which didn't do this (relatively) lighter book any favours. The main character's voice keeps you from noticing how extremely pastiche-dystopic everything is, and also somehow situates the book partway into the world of fable or fairy-tale. 
A book that seems in many ways perfectly-designed to read in a high school English class.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Bullying, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, and Xenophobia

mondestrunken's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

The writing style of the book will have you think it's for kids. THIS IS NOT FOR KIDS, or at least not for kids who aren't gonna be ok with a couple f-bombs and some rather brutal murder in their book. But HOLY HELL is this one of my favourite books ever written. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Gore, Death of parent, and Xenophobia