Reviews tagging 'Child death'

All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac

11 reviews

erks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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: Racism, Child death, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Addiction, and Bullying

Minor: Miscarriage

maggie_gentner's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

A softly brutal book, the sort in which more is said by what is not said.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Suicide

stasiana's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Child death, Racial slurs, and Suicide

aepp's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

The language was rich, especially when speaking about the beauty of the natural world around the reserve home. The author was gentle with his characters. Some sad plot twists that almost felt gratuitous, but sometimes life is hard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Racial slurs

jouljet's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Child death

taryndeanne's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Child death, Death, Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death, Colonisation, Racism, Animal death, and Racial slurs

zee's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Set in the 50s through 60s, this is a coming of age novel of a boy living on a reserve in the Okanagan Valley in BC, with all the hardships, complications, and trauma that come with it. 

The adult characters may be difficult to relate to, but you get a sense of the many driving factors behind their decisions and their impact on Eddie. All of the characters are wildly complicated, as a result of many different hardships.

I understand why it was longlisted for both Canada Reads 2022 and the 2022 Giller Prize, as well as being a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. It's very well-written, and hard to believe that it is a debut of the author. 

This is a very heavy book, though it sneaks up on you; lulling you in with mild optimism when Eddie is young. Be mindful of content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, and Bullying

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

pixieprose's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.25

I don't normally dislike books I read, but I didn't like this book. The writing is very good, the author is definitely talented, but the story is a huge bummer, and the cast is truly unlikable. 

Entirely too much death of children and animals. Does give some insight into tribal affairs in the US and Canada, but the same can be said for books that are more pleasant to read. 

I'm not saying this a bad book, I'm just saying that it was not to my taste and I didn't get as much enjoyment out of it as I had hoped. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Suicide, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Racism

schaarzy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Cursing, Bullying, Classism, Death, Alcoholism, Racism, Blood, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Car accident, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Hate crime, Medical content, and Medical trauma

avisreadsandreads's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Miscarriage