Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

22 reviews

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative mysterious reflective sad 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

KATE QUINN NEVER MISSES
This is my favourite of her novels so far. What a story! I don't usually pick up such long audiobooks but this was 100% worth it, I'm so glad my friend recommended it. I couldn't stop listening.. it's crazy to think about all the research that went into this novel. I loved the way the characters interact, how interconnected they are, and the sense of dread employed by Quinn to keep the readers on the edge of our seats. Truly, it was masterfully done. I will be reading more of her stuff!! Amazing work!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content and Medical content

sarahflanders's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

inirac's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Murder, and War

Minor: Suicide

plottwisttravels's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

kelseak96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

bookishandjoyceful's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I wanted to love this, but I am not sure this was the right book at the right time. I definitely enjoyed Kate Quinn’s other books more. This one I had a harder time following the different characters and their point of views and connections to each other. The audiobook narration was of good quality and did not effect the rating of this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Hate crime, Antisemitism, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: War

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? No

4.5

I love Kate Quinn. She is an auto-buy author of mine whenever a new World War story is told. I don’t know that The Huntress needed so many perspectives or so much time jumping. But the story is fun. It is always exciting to read about history through the lens of feminism. I also appreciate Quinn’s acknowledgement of queer identities throughout history, it can’t be true unless everyone is included. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, and Medical trauma

myworldtoread's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

While I enjoyed the story, I thought it was about 100 pages too long. There were some things that could have been edited to keep the story moving a bit more. I did love the different perspectives though- Jordan's story was probably my favorite, but Nina also grew on me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Murder

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

emlo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.75

I really loved Nina, what a great character. I enjoyed the story but found it very slow in the middle, I think partly because there are 3 POVs which kept rotating throughout, which meant I lost the thread of what was going on across the different strands until they came together at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Antisemitism, and Murder