Reviews tagging 'Child death'

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

32 reviews

beccaand's review

adventurous emotional sad fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Sexism

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Child death

leanne_miron's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child death

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-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

Lundy's story! Goblin Market! I just love this series. I really don't have any literary critique to offer here, not that I ever do. Good vibes and hard-hitting social commentary hidden in fantasy is what Seanan does best. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Sexism

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy and Abortion

breadwitchery's review against another edition

adventurous fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Pregnancy, Blood, Homophobia, Abortion, Bullying, and Fatphobia

rachelunabridged's review

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, and Misogyny

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Child death

mandkips's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Sexism

Moderate: Child death, Violence, and Death

Minor: Abortion

ehmannky's review

adventurous challenging emotional fast-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

5.0

Gorgeous. I honestly wasn't looking forward to reading Lundy's story. I just thought it would be...I don't know, boring? And I was so wrong. It was honestly heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Child death and Violence

mariebrunelm's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

 McGuire's Wayward Children is to me the definition of whimsical fantasy. It goes in unexpected directions, and tells the story with a storyteller type of narrative, which highlights the fairy-tale aspect. It makes it charming, but doesn't prevent the author from touching on very dark themes.

This is the 4th volume in the series, and like the 2nd, it focuses on one character, telling her story before we meet her in the first tome. I won't tell you much about the contents, except that it follows Lundy and that it is heavily inspired by Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, but you don't need to have read this 19th-century poem to enjoy the story (I hadn't).

McGuire's inventiveness really shines through in this series, and I highly recommend it!

Rep: there is no obvious rep , but the theme of belonging and finding a place to call home, both in one's body and in one's environment, feels rather queer to me. And McGuire's series is joyfully inclusive anyway. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death and Sexism

pyromastyx's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Child death and Sexism

Additional content warning:

something adjacent to grooming of a child but not quite.

stressedoutreader's review

adventurous 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Misogyny and Violence

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy