Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Mehr als das by Bettina Abarbanell, Patrick Ness

73 reviews

sk_milky's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia

morgane3471's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I was 120 pages in and ready to DNF it. I was wondering if there was going to be some more actions or if it was going to be Seth only trying to discover where he was. 

Thankfully the other characters appeared quickly after.

I enjoyed the story and the way the book is written. I felt sad for the characters. It is clearly a YA book but still enjoyable. 
 

Wish I had some answers about what the driver was and what happened to the characters after he died but otherwise solid story.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Child death

autumngrace08's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Suicide, and Murder

arlorees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring 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? Yes

4.5

I struggled with the first 70 or so pages feeling slow or like not much was happening, but when the first of many plot twists occurred I couldn't put it down. Give it a chance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Outing

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Gore, Blood, and War

leopoldtf's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, and Outing

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

vinniethyme's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Outing

Moderate: Child death

zoejjj's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective tense slow-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? Yes

2.0

BOOO it felt like the longest book o have ever listened too! Good things first: I listened to this as an audiobook read by Nick Podehl and he was wonderful. Great Job. The little polish boy who’s name I cannot spell (tomage?) iconic. I love him, he was the highlight of this book. 

Bad stuff: PLEASE PATRICK NESS EDIT YOUR BOOKS. The pacing and mystery was actually really good until we meet Tomage (?) and Rajean (again audiobook I do not know how to spell these names) and then the book begins to drag on for chapters and chapters of meaningless interactions. It’s like Patrick couldn’t decide what kind of book he wanted to write and decided to include a scene (or multiple chapters!!) that followed one plot line that eventually went nowhere. If he had answered a single!! question maybe I could forgive him but the ending is stupid.  The premise is promising but he ends it stupidly. Go watch the matrix, it’s essentially the same thing.

I wanted to give up when I had 45 minutes left and could barely slog through the ending. That should’ve been the most on the edge of your seat part of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Outing, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

peggy_racham's review against another edition

4.75

"It was suddenly as if, for the briefest of moments, the burden had been lifted, like there was no gravity at all, like he had finally set down the heavy load he’d been carrying.. "
Hard to write a review of such a character oriented book. No surprise that I loved this book. Patrick Ness has a way of pulling you into the story every time. All the snipets of the past were so good even when it broke my heart. Love it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

flissjoy33's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

It was pretty dark - very similar to the Matrix. I thought it was going to be an analogy for the afterlife but it definitely wasn't. Read up on trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

didabean's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I don't usually write book reviews so bear with me.
I have mixed feelings about this book, it wasn't what I expected but I think it's better to go in a little blind.
I liked the story. even when it felt predictable I was still engaged and didn't want to put the book down.
but what really put a bad taste in my mouth is the way regine is written. it feels like the sassy/angry black woman + sidekick trope to me and I think she deserved better. I understand that racism and fatphobia are a part of her story, but some of the lines ness wrote about her size and race were off putting to me, specifically when they weren't talking about her backstory. I'm not sure how to word it and I haven't seen many others talk about it, but I almost dnf'ed the book bc of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Fatphobia and Racism