Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

91 reviews

elmtreebooks's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

It’s dark, but beautiful. It’s a lingering meditation on grief, trauma and love. I didn’t really enjoy reading it, and I’d never reread it, and there is only a very few people I’d recommend it too, but I did find it lovely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death

deedeeroo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Car accident

megan_martha_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

4.75

Beautiful haunting book. View of a terrifying and still hopeful future. Reminder that we are never to small to do even just a little. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child death

lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

5.0

Your absence has never felt crueller. I've never hated you until now. I've never loved you more.

Absolute work of art. There's poetry in McConaghy's prose. I could swim in her storytelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

rachelshulman's review

emotional sad medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

jaimiejaimiejaimie's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

It's a 3.5? This book was strange for me. Franny was so outside of anyone I could imagine, and the events were so improbable I had a hard time with it. I appreciated the diverse characters, but at the same time they seemed there as a backdrop to a white woman's plight. It was still engrossing, but it felt like a book I would have appreciated more as a college student and had more drama in my gut. The audiobook narrator does a pretty darn good job with all of the accents and brings the story alive with her acting, so there's that. And as a content note, I found it very difficult to get through certain parts as the mother to a son and daughter. 

But also, what the heck did I just read? Did anyone grow? Did anyone learn anything? What was real? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Child death

amyeicher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Child death and Miscarriage

mkwreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

Moderate: Child death, Death, Self harm, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

wonderenglish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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

4.5

A hard read because of the possibility of such a harsh future becoming a reality. But beautifully written and somehow hopeful despite its grimness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Blood

Minor: Child death

f1utterby3's review against another edition

4.5

Honestly, after reading this book, I had to take a break from reading. I had so many feelings about this book, and wanted to enjoy them for as long as I could before starting something new.

My only qualm with this book (and it's a pretty big qualm) is the full reveal of Franny's backstory and the secrets that have been teased along the way. Throughout the story we get flashbacks from Franny that hint at something dark in her past.

We even see her have sleepwalking episodes that end with her hands around someone's neck, which led me to believe that her crime was either intentional or sleepwalking induced. For me, the blame she took for an accidental car accident didn't match the build-up at all

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death