Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

74 reviews

saurahsaurus's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexism, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Pregnancy

A note on some of the content warnings. Although the transphobia is not explicit, the author very clearly believes in a “gender binary,” and therefore segregated bathrooms, dorms, etc. according to that discriminatory belief system. Furthermore, there are several remarks and depictions that I, personally, consider to be sexist because they reinforce stereotypes based on gender. (And, again, the author believes gender to be binary.) For example, most of the females frequently weep while the males remain stoic. At one point, the author describes Vernon and Petunia as looking as horrified as if their son, Dudley, had confessed he wanted to be a ballerina. While sexism and transphobia are not major plot points, I wanted to warn viewers for whom this type of content (even to a minor degree) is triggering, so that they may be aware and make an informed decision.

doorasbookshelf's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent

annapox's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

maincharacter_james's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Classism

bookshelfoverload's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping, Pregnancy

lexarobinson's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

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Rowling's masterpiece. There are several plotholes created throughout the series, but I can forgive them for a final book as strong as this. The Golden Trio are simply just lovable; Rowling presents the personal consequences of war so accurately, you simply cannot put it down. Love and loss are the tale (one particular student's death had me sobbing, but then you're delighted because the slowburn couple finally admit their feelings), and Rowling merges them perfectly. My only qualm is the epilogue. 'All was well'.... Rowling. You can do better than that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, War

accio_gays's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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

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This is definitely one of my favourites of the series. Way better than the film's, the first one especially (tent the film *eyeroll*). Always something happening unlike previous books where it takes a while for Harry to really do something. There's continuous new discoveries that excite me everytime you can click it together. The writing style is definitely so much better than previous books, and it was just easier to read due to the continuous adventure, I loved it! It didn't wait until the end of the book to uncover the mystery and I appreciated that, there was clues right throughout. Makes me cry every single time, just the deaths and Kreacher (he broke my heart in OoTP, but he puts it back together in this, with his story uncovered I have a new appreciation for him. And the end when he bursts into the battle, just tears. Anyways, overall a good read and would definitely read again. It's definitely the darker of the HP books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

gsch219's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Racism, Torture, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder

jbabbm's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, War

grizzlysnack's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Violence

Minor: Gore, Grief