Reviews tagging 'Death'

Saras nøkkel by Tatiana de Rosnay

13 reviews

daralexandria's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Antisemitism, Grief, and Deportation

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Genocide and War

hollyg35's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective relaxing sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

WW 2 historical fiction 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, War, and Classism

Moderate: Infertility

katie0528's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

This book was devestating. Alternating POVs between 1942 and 2002, this story explores the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of Jews in Paris in July 1942 and French attitudes about it at the 60th anniversary. Sarah, a young Jewish girl living with her brother and her parents, has her home invaded and she and her parents are arrested by the French police. Thinking she'll be back soon, she locks her brother in a hidden cabinet. Meanwhile, in 2002, American reporter Julia is researching a story of French indifference to their complicity to the murder of thousands of people while juggling a failing marriage and dark family secrets. It's a devestating book, as Holocaust books tend to be, but Sarah's POV wraps up about 2/3 of the way through the book. The last section is about the fallout of Julia's investigation and while it was interesting, it was less compelling than Sarah's story or even her investigation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

chloepfrimmer's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-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

3.0

I enjoyed the story overall, but I do wish it focused more on Sarah’s POV. I felt the author went into a little too much random detail about Julia’s life, and the ending was weird and unnecessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Miscarriage, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Infertility, Car accident, and Pregnancy

14silja's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Outing, War, and Deportation

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

This was fine. Not what I was expecting. I enjoyed the first hundred pages(except the writing style). Then we lose a narrative part that I was enjoying way more. We started just focusing on Julie and how she felt about the things that happened and her stupid husband. Honestly while I was reading I had plot points that would have made this better and when they didn’t happen and it was just about Julia I was disappointed. That being said I am happy I read this because I honestly didn’t really know that these events took place in France. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and War

kiahsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, and War

jennabarry3's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, Abortion, and War

Minor: Car accident

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Infertility, Excrement, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

nokannpo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

Be prepare to be devastated... this story is beautiful and profound but very emotional. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Genocide