Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger

8 reviews

mmccombs's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

A bit slow and long, I didn’t enjoy this as much as Elatsoe, but I still thought it was well done. I love the way this book connected with itself, lots of circular bits to the story that made the resolution satisfying. The audio book narration felt a bit flat to me, I had a hard time following who was talking just because the tone was so consistent. I enjoyed Shane as a character and the last third was probably the most interesting. I don’t think this will stick with me in the same way book 1 did, but I’m still glad I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death

littlelizzieborden's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Abandonment, Death, Racism, Death of parent, Grief, Classism, and Colonisation

language_loving_amateur's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Some very big picture stuff in here, but Little Badger makes it so personal to this family. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Classism, and Colonisation

Minor: Abandonment, Grief, Racism, Gaslighting, and Dementia

lettuce_read's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Colonisation

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Minor: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Car accident, Murder, Colonisation, Dementia, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Hate crime, Violence, Vomit, and War

Hurricane, flood.

catamongstthepages's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Colonisation

jazzyjbox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

 A beautiful addition to the Elatsoe series!

Shane and her mother Lorenza rescue lost people. When Lorenza disappears while searching for a missing teen and child, it's up to Shane and her mother's ghost dog to find out where a fairy ring sent them.

I loved the way this adventure was told, and I always appreciate Sapphic representation, even if it was in side characters. The writing was gorgeous, steeped in storytelling, and I wholly identified with Shane's loss of her father. I hope to see more from this universe!

Thanks so much to NetGalley and publisher for the opportunity to read and review! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

rainbowbrarian's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Grief

A child goes missing