Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

123 reviews

disauci's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

Moderate: Confinement and Violence

Minor: Child death

megan_harper's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Kidnapping

Minor: Child death

booksoversecondbreakfast's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

3.25

The writing is great and the story is interesting but it just wasn't that interesting to me. I don't really understand why this book is so beloved, but horror books aren't really my thing anyways. I think it becomes a bit more interesting when read as allegorical of a child's POV living with an abusive mother, but I'm still unsure if that was the intent of the book. All in all, it was a decent read. Definitely creepy, but I have trouble wrapping my head around it all.
I borrowed this book from my library, in audiobook form, and the audiobook format definitely made it more interesting. The narration was really engaging. It's a book I feel is worth reading at least once, but I don't know that I'll read it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child death

mheffner3031's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Confinement

uselesspirateraven's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Stalking

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

mentalmondai's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Confinement

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

galaxyelfjess's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.0

If you've seen the film, the Wybie character is not in the book and the bit where the other mother becomes a spider and Coraline is caught in her web alsonis not there. The rest of it is pretty spot on, but it made for a very underwhelming ending.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Gaslighting

The other mother engages in gaslighting Coraline quite often by kind of skirting around the truth and making Coraline believe her life in the other world is better. Coraline herself also does not die, but there are

littlewishling's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

3.5

Honestly not as scary as I was expecting but still pretty good. I almost wish had a more open-ended ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

hayleycorrigan's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Confinement

leosaki's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.75

There are some spelling mistakes, some missing words, but all in all the translation doesn't lose the original's magic and whimsy. The drawings are beautiful, but not always correct, Coraline is wearing the wrong outfit sometimes, characters don't look like they are described on the pages that go with the picture etc

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Kidnapping