Reviews tagging 'Child death'

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133 reviews

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

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

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

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

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: Death and Murder

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

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Abandonment

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, Homophobia, and Racism

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

sleepylit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

mlewis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Mass/school shootings, and War

roniboi's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

I began reading the book and almost dropped it. I was introduced to fourteen characters and I cared for none of them. Nor did I care for the way they were portrayed. Even after finishing, I am iffy about if I liked how the characters were written. At first, I was thrown off by how it was narrated. It felt like the author was trying to sprinkle exposition in for these characters when I couldn't care less about. Later, this same narrative tool became more effective as it focused in on the remaining characters, not all 14. Some characters you were clearly supposed to feel for, but I could not given how little time they had to expand those feelings. I resented that the book kept telling me how I was supposed to feel about these characters, only to feel that way about them. Just a little. I liked it much better when it was smaller groups. I cared enough about them and I felt for them. It wasn't perfect, but I appreciate what it had to say and the way it chose to say it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Murder

juliesleseecke's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Murder, and Lesbophobia