Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Una Porta per Ogni Cuore by Seanan McGuire

37 reviews

grem_ler's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, Gore, Abandonment, and Violence

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Ableism

anna_brawn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Blood, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death and Transphobia

Minor: Eating disorder

ksmith_23's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Dysphoria, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Torture, Transphobia, and Cursing

theinkedpath's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

ES:

Llevo años queriendo leer este libro y, aunque ya sabía de que iba, me ha sorprendido muy gratamente. McGuire sabe escribir de forma muy potente en pocas hojas...teniendo la capacidad de arrastrarte a la historia con ella.
A mí me ha arrastrado y ahora no sé vivir en el mundo real.

EN:

I have been waiting for reading this book for ages. I knew what it was about, more or less, because this story has a mystery to it. However, the moment I knew the Wayward children I knew I was going to be charged forever. In this story, McGuire explores what happens to those who reach fantasy worlds, like the children from Narnia, when they come back...and they do not know how to behave in the real world. 
The School for Wayward Children helps precisely with that. 

However, when Nancy arrives students start dying and the school is in danger. Read it to find out! Seriously, read it...you will not be disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Murder, Death, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Abandonment, and Transphobia

lorenmarie7's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Cute and dark story that reminds me of Grimms fairy tales

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Blood, Death, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

arobear's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Transphobia and Abandonment

books4em's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Loved this little book, will be picking up the rest of the series! My only complaint was there was a lot of high level vocabulary that I had to look up, and there were a few scenes or segways that felt very rushed through. That being said, it was a very interesting introduction to this world and series. I found each character unique and intriguing, and I appreciated that they all had different stories for the doors they walked into (whether I liked them or not). Loved the diversity too - ace/aro and trans main characters. Look forward to continuing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Murder, Torture, Gaslighting, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Outing

Minor: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

maybephasing's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Transphobia, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Abandonment

walkie_check's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Blood, Deadnaming, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Death, and Bullying

Minor: Transphobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Dementia, and Violence

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Every once in a while a story comes along that is so insanely unique that it melts your brain when you think of the type of mind that must exist to have created it. This is perhaps the most unique story I’ve ever come across. It is then, almost by definition, a tad confusing. It’s short enough that re-reading chapters a few times didn’t completely drive me insane. It was more so that I would read a chapter and then a few chapters later realize I didn’t fully understand that other thing the way I thought I did… best to go back and go over it again. That makes this sound miserable but I swear it’s not. I can’t wait to read the stories of all the other wayward children for as long as Seanan will write them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Animal death, Body horror, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Transphobia, and Vomit