Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

37 reviews

nhacco's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

Beautiful and heartbreaking. Gorgeous writing, that madness fall in love with reading again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Infidelity

niaaaaa's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence and Classism

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

moonybombadil's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child abuse and Violence

helena_sp_07's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

sib_reads's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual content

ntvenessa's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

A moving fictionalisation of Hamnet Shakespeare's life and death, and the grief that haunts his family, particularly, his mother. It is atmospheric and O'Farrell is incredibly skilled to breathe life into the scant historical details that survive today.

"I am dead:
Thou livest;
... draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story"
Hamlet, Act V, Scene II

Stunning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, and Classism

sehwa's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

I haven't read a book quite like this before. Not all that much happens in the plot, it's just a lovely storytelling of the past and present. Maggie's writing is absolutely wonderful, it took me a few pages to get used to it but it was a joy to read and I was never bored. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Pregnancy

booksmoviesandstories's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty and Infidelity

excritos's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Death and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism and Violence