Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller

373 reviews

ivanaestaba's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

painfully amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Injury/injury detail, Murder, War, Child death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Self harm, Genocide, and Gore

i_am_tilde's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Death, Sexual violence, Blood, Violence, Rape, and War

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Misogyny, Medical content, Trafficking, Torture, and Self harm

Minor: Animal death

koinania's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, War, Violence, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, and Medical content

samanthaleeshea's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Rape and Child death

midnightbelles's review

emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

After hearing so much about this book, both positive and negative I was a little unsure what to expect when getting into it (Besides the obvious). However overall I enjoyed this more than I expected to, I didn’t love it, but I also didn’t dislike it as much as I though I would as someone who typically only reads stories with happy endings. Some/a lot of parts of this story were definitely questionable to me but I enjoyed reading about the connection Achilles and Patroclus had and also about the journey the two went through together . The beginning of the book was pretty dry and I almost dnf’d so many times but once I got about halfway through I was more invested and curious about how things would play out. I’m conflicted about how I feel about this book as whole tbh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Murder, War, Death, Gore, Grief, Child death, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

holliesatchell's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Genocide, Injury/injury detail, Blood, Gore, Animal death, Child death, Death, Abandonment, Death of parent, Homophobia, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, War, and Violence

kcheyne's review

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Violence, Sexual assault, Death, War, and Rape

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

addienoah's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

This book was a slow start but once it got Achilles introduced I was captivated. And it just kept getting better and playing out every scene in my head while reading brought them to life. This was very well written and the characters were so interesting. Even after Protroclus died, he still narrated and the ending with Thetis brought me to tears. 
I finished this in a short period of time because I am a fast reader that frequently reads. But I considered this a slow read because of how long it felt. Each page you had to pay attention and digest. The language was something you also had to adjust to. In all this was a medium read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Outing, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Gore, Pregnancy, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Slavery, War, Confinement, Death, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Self harm, Torture, Hate crime, and Physical abuse

nutmegandpumpkin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Murder, Grief, Blood, War, Injury/injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexism, Slavery, Classism, Rape, Child death, Animal death, Homophobia, Cursing, Misogyny, and Self harm

analea_lucille's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Sexual assault, Child death, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Religious bigotry, Rape, Sexism, Injury/injury detail, Gore, Death, and War