Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

7 reviews

phouka's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Medical content, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death and Abandonment

stindex's review against another edition

adventurous

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

jaimeeleigh_'s review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Pregnancy

ecravens's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

l_e_lavalle's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

I'll say it...the movie for breaking dawn (part 2) was better than the book because at LEAST it has a little bit of payoff for all the build up.  Do not read if you're bothered by reading about heavy topics related to pregnancy because it is not handled well (in my opinion of course because I've *thankfully* never been pregnant, I could be wrong about how they were handled).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Child death

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual violence, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Suicide, Dementia, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

lizziaha's review against another edition

3.0

This book is definitely a guilty pleasure for me. I enjoy reading it but it is ultimately so deeply problematic that it’s hard to stay in the story. Aside from Meyer’s regular racism involving the Quileutes (quite literally insinuating that POC are animals) and her drastic white-washing of every single vampire character, there were other problems.

The way Meyer handles Bella’s pregnancy carries deeply anti-abortion sentiments—with the people trying to prioritize Bella’s life being framed as the antagonists. Additionally, solving the love triangle by making Jacob fall in love with a child?? I know that Meyer tries to pretend like it’s not like that but it’s truly insane in my opinion. And with jacob’s perspective we get a healthy dose of misogyny and just a sprinkle of homophobia, so that’s unfortunate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Misogyny, Racism, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia