Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

287 reviews

frenchpants's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Great concept, but poor execution—ending really ruined it for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming, Addiction, Animal death, Classism, Child death, Drug abuse, and Suicide attempt

meahjones's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death, Child death, and Suicide

Minor: Blood

biojesspj's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia, Addiction, Death, Blood, Alcohol, Ableism, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Classism

Minor: War, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Child death, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

lauracrawford823's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

This was a difficult book to get into, despite it throwing the reader into the adventure right away. It took me a good 150-200 pages to really understand what was going on. There are a lot of characters and timelines to keep track of. However, the plot was very interesting. 

I feel like this could have been a more concise book and the ending could have been a little longer. Overall, it was good.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, and Suicide

antarcticophile's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, Violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Drug use and Rape

magmabadger's review against another edition

challenging 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Grief and Child death

Minor: Sexual violence and Rape

turnerp's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-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

4.25

Loved the mystery of trying to solve what was going to happen etc. good twist but weeks after finishing the book I still can't decide how I feel about the ending. Perhaps that's the point though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Minor: Child death

tneumann's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.5

Ambitious and mostly entertaining, despite my low grade confusion for a good chunk of the book. I appreciate what the author was aiming for - quite the feat to keep track of all the details and weave them together. While I wouldn’t mind if it were shorter, not sure what’d you’d cut out so length was appropriate to fit in all the perspectives from the various hosts. 

A few things that were not my favorite:
1. So much fat phobic language for Ravencort. It was lazy writing, there are better ways to write about this characters physically abilities.
2. Aiden took most things as truth for the first half of the book, happily accepting what various people said and being resolute in whatever the new truth was. Then in the later part, his theories became much more secretive to the reader. I understand why, but it was a bit shift and think there were more skillful ways to keep the reader in the dark.
3.

Wasn’t invested in Anna’s reveal and reformation, the latter felt very unconvincing. Aside from murdering Aiden’s sister, the details were so vague that it was hard to understand the magnitude of what she had done. And how much had she really changed and proven herself other than what we see in her actions over the course of the day. And all is supposed to be forgiven? 
4. Would have liked to understood more about Daniel’s history, and the footman was just a rando killing for fun?

I liked the reveal of the Plague Doctor and that this was all a justice reformation system, and how much time they’d been there.

Interesting, ambitious, fun aside from being confused for a good part of it, and not quite as expertly executed as it could have been.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia, Drug use, Child death, and Animal cruelty

juanat77's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Blood, Cursing, Infidelity, Torture, Alcohol, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Bullying, Death, Body horror, Physical abuse, and Violence

remescient's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

This was really close to a perfect mystery. I feel like it wobbled just a bit at the end, but the beautiful prose and well crafted mystery at the center make it well worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child death, Murder, Sexual assault, Torture, Classism, Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide, and Confinement