Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer

7 reviews

san_dra's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Incest, and Vomit

savvylit's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A

2.0

The good: relatively well written and empathetic towards very specific new adult feelings of anxiety and depression.

The bad: I found the book boring and naive. Mostly because I am certainly not the target audience at all. To begin, the initial trio of girls obsessed with death were full of intrigue. But Claire left the other "death girls" behind so quickly. Additionally, I didn't realize quite how young this entire book would feel. Wolitzer was twenty-one when she published Sleepwalking and it shows. I think I might have enjoyed this when I was somewhere around that same age. At 32, though, Sleepwalking just seemed like a shallow story striving too hard for meaning. I've read much better debuts by young authors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief

alylentz's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Yes. YES. YESSS! Girlhood is about obsession and death and then realizing it's Not About You. Five stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Suicide, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

hunkydory's review

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Pregnancy

paigemushaw's review

reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

itsmycah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual content

luckykosmos's review

dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

I didn't quite know what to expect going into this. But I love stories about projections, about making people fit the holes in your life that they aren't meant for. I love stories about forcing ourselves to fit personas of who we want to be, and drawing the line between that and who we are. Watching these shells of people reforming themselves around grief and love, relearning how to person, spoke to me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Suicidal thoughts