Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Kuulen sisareni kutsuvan by Meg Wolitzer

7 reviews

san_dra's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Child death, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Vomit, and Incest

savvylit's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A

2.0

The good: relatively well written and empathetic towards very specific new adult feelings of anxiety and depression.

The bad: I found the book boring and naive. Mostly because I am certainly not the target audience at all. To begin, the initial trio of girls obsessed with death were full of intrigue. But Claire left the other "death girls" behind so quickly. Additionally, I didn't realize quite how young this entire book would feel. Wolitzer was twenty-one when she published Sleepwalking and it shows. I think I might have enjoyed this when I was somewhere around that same age. At 32, though, Sleepwalking just seemed like a shallow story striving too hard for meaning. I've read much better debuts by young authors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Grief

alylentz's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Yes. YES. YESSS! Girlhood is about obsession and death and then realizing it's Not About You. Five stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child death, and Cancer

hunkydory's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Self harm, Death, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Child death

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Drug use

paigemushaw's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Child death

itsmycah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Cancer, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual content

luckykosmos's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

I didn't quite know what to expect going into this. But I love stories about projections, about making people fit the holes in your life that they aren't meant for. I love stories about forcing ourselves to fit personas of who we want to be, and drawing the line between that and who we are. Watching these shells of people reforming themselves around grief and love, relearning how to person, spoke to me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts