Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Shining by Stephen King

10 reviews

phvntom's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, Vomit, Gore, Grief, Suicide, Alcohol, Misogyny, Body horror, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Ableism, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Physical abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

5.0

A well crafted novel. They aren’t made quite like this anymore

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Alcoholism, Confinement, Blood, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Ableism, Murder, Death, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

Moderate: Car accident, Racial slurs, Racism, Vomit, Suicide, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cannibalism, Colonisation, Slavery, Genocide, Child death, and War

mattythebookworm22's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Alcoholism

Moderate: Murder, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Medical trauma and Drug abuse

annikw's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

• 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism, Murder, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Child death

Minor: Cannibalism

molly_greenshields's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

Ummmm so who knew I'd be a HUGE Stephen King girlie? Not usually my kinda genre but boy, did this book take me by surprise. I was absolutely blown away. Time to finally brave the film?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Violence, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Child death, and Blood

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

ewan338's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death

neonfuzz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Murder, Child abuse, Blood, and Alcoholism

rosesofthespring's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Ableism, Child death, Drug abuse, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Gun violence, Sexual content, Vomit, and Homophobia

As usual, Stephen King is very weird about stuttering, so watch out for that. No one (as far as I can tell) is actually psychotic, but the content heavily revolves around hallucinations and questioning reality.

hellscape_princess's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Racial slurs