Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

6 reviews

jocelyn62013's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: War

bme244's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Sexual content, Violence, Colonisation, and War

irisameliaink's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Quite the turn from her prior installments with a dark, traumatic start. It set the groundwork for some emotional stakes that resonate in the Fleet community in varying places. Wonderful characters, as always.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.75

This one is less adventure and more reflective than the previous books in this series, covering heavy themes. Chambers guides us through these topics with masterful writing, while enveloping us in a world so well developed it feels like a home from home.

I think it was a work of genius weaving the reader’s role of bearing witness into Sawyer’s storyline in such a profound way…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Pregnancy

overbooked207's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

📖 Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers Book Review 📖

9th and last book of August 2022 and 26th of the year:

Like all Becky Chambers books, this one had amazing world-building, lyrical writing, a great audiobook, queer representation, a queernormative world, great sex work representation, and beautiful conversations around humanity and how important communication and learning about different cultures are. There are a lot of point of views, and it was a bit confusing at first, but as the book went along, I got used to it and grew to like it and the characters. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is still my favorite, but I highly recommend the whole series, and I can’t wait to read more books in it! TW for death, mass death, child death, death of a parent, alcohol, drug use, sexual content, xenophobia, grief, vomit, and medical content📚🚀🔭🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

paukinra's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death