Reviews tagging 'Death'

Watership Down by Richard Adams

19 reviews

ampharos906's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Body horror, Sexual content, Car accident, and Pregnancy

indigobird4000's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Excrement, and War

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

Every character of any significance in the book is a rabbit (or bird), so these are the best-fit content warnings. Pregnancy loss, for example, does not happen in the same way for rabbits as for humans (

reabsorption back into the body

) so may be less distressing for some readers

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Infertility, Torture, Violence, Excrement, and Kidnapping

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

alyxosmos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

I love this book! It’s the book that got me back into reading when I was 10 years old and I’ve loved it ever since. Love the story, and characters to the very bottom of my soul. It does deal in some serious themes as these are rabbit living out in the world. This isn’t all pure heartedness aimed at kids. But I personally feel that added seriousness helps add a richness to the story and makes you really start to connect and root for them. I highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

lou_pooh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad slow-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

I loved how descriptive the book was and how you get to know all the charecters in the story. New adventures challenging, dark but inspiring around each cornor. It also had great additions in there about there beliefs and story tellings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Blood

Minor: Racism and War

twonky's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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

4.0

When I was young my Mom told that Watership Down was too sad for me. I have always been sensitive. However, it isn’t actually that sad. It is very tense though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death

Minor: Mental illness

arlorees's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Just a perfectly sweet story. Makes you feel like a kid being told a bedtime story by a grandparent. 

I listened to Peter Capaldi narate it, he was fantastic. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Murder

Minor: Bullying and Confinement

sommarborne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Blood

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

This made me feel like a little kid again which I know isn’t an easy feat. I was squirming reading this feeling so tense and anxious for battle rabbits in a society some parts even felt apocalyptic. An absolute page-turner this was awesome

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

coffeebean216's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Sexism