Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

16 reviews

twistykris's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Mental illness, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Murder and Car accident

tspice24's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Medical content, Mental illness, Confinement, Medical trauma, Child abuse, and Death

beholderess's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Car accident, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Minor: Death

hrob76's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

carissa230's review

challenging mysterious reflective slow-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? Yes

3.75

Violet is living with her gran and her brother. Her parents died in a car accident and it’s just the 3 of them until her gran brings a girl home from the asylum she works at. Violet finds this strange as the place only works with adults, but she agrees to report back anything that the new girl Iris says. 

Violet is precocious and wants to know more so she starts to snoop around to see what she can find about Iris. She stops taking the “shakes” her gran makes, convinced she and Iris are being drugged. When she starts digging she finds she may not know her gran at all.

In the current timeline Lizzy is investigating a missing person case. She travels the world searching for monsters for her podcast. It’s clear from the start Lizzy is connected with the children, but not how.

The book was a little slowed paced for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

ohhthehorrors's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Murder, and Torture