Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

218 reviews

tashba's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse and Body horror

a_v_h's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child death, Death, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse and Physical abuse

alexijai98's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

I can tolerate only so much Renaissance Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Pregnancy, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

nordicat's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse and Pregnancy

theladyelizabeth's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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: Child death, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny and Child abuse

rosenau's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, Death, Grief, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Physical abuse

Minor: Miscarriage, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Sexual content

nikmalikov's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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? Yes

4.0

beautifully, heartbreakingly haunting (mental health out the window over that ending i fear).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Child abuse, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Pregnancy

hellothereforeitsalex's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

3.75

The plot jumps from storyline to storyline that weave together to create a narrative that casts the spotlight upon the family of Shakespeare and their lives he isn’t mentioned by name nor is he the main focus of this book he is a side character. Anne/Agnes steps forward as the protagonist and embodies strength, resilience  and knows her own mind through a sharp focused intuition. I liked that the book has a strong female protagonist who walked to the beat of her own drum and knew herself. I enjoyed that throughout the plot we got glimpses into the world at that time, however I’m not usually a fan of jumping between parallel timelines although this did work well and didn’t leave me wondering what was going on, it was easy to follow. The book touches on the way grief affects people in different ways and how people cope with their grief differently. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Grief

aj_langley's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Child death

Moderate: Child abuse and Chronic illness

layton93's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child death

Moderate: Child abuse