Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

3 reviews

ruthannejoy's review against another edition

adventurous dark relaxing 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

4.5

Bullet point review:
-Even better on the second read. The first time I was speeding across the pages at the end because I was anxious about how it was gonna play out. This time I could read slower and appreciate the action more. It still feels like it went fast and could have had a bit more buildup somehow to the rescue, though.
-Skippy is great and I love him
-I miss Sam
-The cover art really does not match my image of Meg haha
-I teared up when Jean got the jar of honey

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Self harm, and Torture

Moderate: Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Rape, Confinement, Gore, Sexual violence, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Vomit, Child death, and Child abuse

azurelunatic's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, and Gore

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Mental illness, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, and Kidnapping

greymalkin's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Loved this!  Relationships grow more fraught and complicated, the plot gets darker and the stakes are going up and up.  

I like that Anne Bishop allowed bad things happen to main and secondary characters.  I don't need them to always be perfect or have everything go their way.  Compromise can be so much more interesting.

I really love Meg and Simons' relationship.  It's slow burn but in a way that reveals so much about their characters that I'm (mostly) content to wait for them to figure out how much they love each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Minor: Drug abuse, Child abuse, and Child death