Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Paradais by Fernanda Melchor

7 reviews

raila_h's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape and Child death

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Death, Child death, Incest, and Pregnancy

laneport's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

4.5

An incredible work of literature and translation. But brutal, and hard to enjoy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Child death, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

Minor: Drug use and Cursing

luna_snowfeather's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

 This book was brutal in the best way possible. Absolutly Unhinged.

We follow 2 teens in mexico as they graple with their place in society. Melchor's writing makes you almost feel for them as you are brought into this intense moment in their lives, when they are really at their worst. What they do is horrific, and completely deranged.
I have seen many bad reviews for this book, and can put it down only to its very graphic writing. It is not for the delicate, and features very graphic and vivid images of sexual violence and complete madness. If that's not for you, then do not read this.

I found it so unbelievably adictive, I only wanted to continue. The pages practically turned themselves, especially at the end... I'd recomend to anyone who is mentally able to take it, it's not for everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Fatphobia, Incest, Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol, Torture, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Violence

przidentvincent's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Vomit, Child death, Death, Rape, Pregnancy, Incest, and Alcoholism

hukkelberg's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

What a sad little thing. It's just mulch. Irritating, frustrating, upsetting mulch. It paints a picture, spends so many pages painting a huge glance at the holes and corners of the workings in this country. The way its written, the huge sentences, steeps the text in a false sense of urgency that tricks you into thinking something's going to happen and then it doesn't, it never does. But it makes its point. The voice is this way because Polo's life is this way and it convinces you, as it convinced him, that this endless rhythmic drudgery is all that ever will be. He's barely present in the end, in his own mind, and that had the unfortunate consequence of making me as detached as he willed himself to be so he could process it. I started it yesterday evening, around midnight, and finished it now, not without it putting me to sleep thrice. It's a serious book, deals in serious matters, but instead of bringing you in, it makes you into the unengaged spectator of an avalanche of tragedies that so overwhelmingly supersedes the scope of action of its protagonist there is no moment you are tempted to commune with whatever it's attempting to speak on. It's like watching the news form another room. But it's not bad, nor is it dumb. It's just sad and little.

EDIT: Bumping this up half a star, not because it's any better, but because I just had to work on a place just like the one described here and I understood intimately, immediately, the feelings of the main character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Classism, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, and Incest

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

coramorton02's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cursing, Murder, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Incest