Reviews tagging 'Child death'

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127 reviews

jazhandz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

It was interesting reading this after Mister Magic and seeing the through-lines between them. This feels like a messier attempt at the themes that Mister Magic explores, but the premise and characters here are incredibly strong.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Suicide, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, and Gun violence

Minor: Child abuse, Racism, Cancer, Classism, and Lesbophobia

lukel's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death

hazychapters's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

3.0

An interesting promise but that doesn't follow through: we finish this book with many questions and few answers. 
The characters are intriguing but most are erased and their backstory is not very well elaborated. 
This book is short in pages but a little long in pace: I would have liked more tension and suspense rather than long descriptions which, most of the time, don't add much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Sexism, and Racism

darquedreamer's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

midsummernoodle's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.75

I loved this book! Very spooky, not too gory, and perfect amount of tension. I didn't realize it was a sort of folk horror book until about halfway through, but I was pleasantly surprised (that's my fave horror genre!). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Classism

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Lesbophobia

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Child abuse, Classism, Gun violence, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Ableism, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Sexism, Animal death, and Abandonment

kyrstin_p1989's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Exceptionally creepy and disturbing. This would make a really cool movie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Torture, Racism, and Violence

vanesst's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Child death, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Blood, Classism, and Suicide

Minor: Animal cruelty, Abandonment, and Animal death

janachigo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Homophobia

Minor: Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Body horror, War, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Child death, Sexism, Self harm, Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

czty27's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Violence