Reviews - Gutter Child | The StoryGraph

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Gutter Child

Jael Richardson

3.92 AVERAGE

kelsbookzone1's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

A creative dystopian world with some hard to read moments. A well developed story but the writing style felt like at times it couldn’t decide if it wanted to be young adult or not, so it lost me a little bit on style of writing consistency

dessa's review against another edition

4.0

I think I liked this book’s resistance to the easy, well-known dystopian narrative of catharsis. Nothing gets solved, necessarily, but watching these characters work slowly towards understanding — of themselves, their community, the poison or their economic system and the small ways it can be resisted — is both beautiful and difficult.

allisonplus's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

graceisbookedandbusy's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

nicoletavares's review against another edition

4.0

The audiobook performance is excellent and definitely pulled me in. It falls between YA and adult fiction. A compelling story and lovely writing. Would read this author again.

bisexualbookshelf's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

babyboiblake's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Gutter child is story that takes place in a nation that's split in two, the mainland and gutter. Elimina Dubois is one of the 100 babies taken from the Gutter and raised in the mainland, she was the only one to survive past the age of ten. The story follows elimina as she adjusts to life at the academy after her adoptive mainland mother died . She struggles with feeling that she doesn't truly belonging with the other gutter people or the mainlanders.