Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown

6 reviews

littlelotto's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Fire/Fire injury

Survival, Oregon trail, cannibalism, stranded, hypothermia

jenlengland's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Cannibalism, Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Abandonment, Colonisation

Minor: Racism, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

morgue666's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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just so well written and so humanising. i’ve known about the donner party for many years. but unlike say the 1972 andes crash I’ve never really been able to put a face or even a name to the tragedy, they all sort of merged into vague tragedy shaped pioneers and i knew half of them didn’t survive. this book truly humanised not only sarah for me, but so so many of those who attempted to make way for california. absolutely heartbreaking and horrifying without falling into revelling in the misery and horror of it all. when i got to the section with the images i started at sarah graves’ picture for so long, unable to reconcile everything i had read about this courageous young woman who lost and saw so much, with this image. she was 21, she was real, and she survived this, alongside 47 other real life people who survived the disaster. after the donner party being a renowned cannibalistic spectacle pretty much ever since it had happened, Brown does a masterful act of ripping down all of the facade and showing the real people and real horror underneath it all. masterful.  (also it wasn’t until i read this book that i realised the franklin expedition got stuck in the ice at the exact same time. history is weird like that)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Murder, War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury

sare1125's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Cannibalism

Moderate: Racism, Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, War

mondovertigo's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts

midnightstory's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation

Moderate: Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Infidelity