Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

2 reviews

lordofdisorder's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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, Suicide, Body horror, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Abandonment, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gore, Grief, Murder, War, Drug abuse, Medical content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Xenophobia, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Kidnapping, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, and Child death

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Body horror, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Blood, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Self harm, War, Xenophobia, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Pedophilia, Ableism, Abortion, Biphobia, Violence, and Vomit