Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

17 reviews

claire_leibovitz's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, War

Minor: Sexism, Suicide, Antisemitism, Death of parent

solemnly's review against another edition

3.25

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The book was slightly disturbing and the plot was decent. I'm not the biggest fan and I wouldn't read it again but it wasn't the worst I have read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief

Minor: Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy

miaach's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Murder

Minor: Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

shellanor_rigby's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: War

hjb_128's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

serena_hien's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Suicide

ella7211's review against another edition

2.0

dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Suicide

filipa_maia's review against another edition

3.0

challenging sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Reading William Shakespeare is not an easy task. Even though this book took so much energy from me, I really enjoyed the story.

Even though this book took so much energy from me, I really enjoyed the story. Very poetic. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Body horror

bennoyb's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War

alexyoung8's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, War