Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Castaways by Lucy Clarke

7 reviews

emilywitho's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault and Death of parent

autismandniamh's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.25

Descriptions of the island were very detailed but, ultimately, too repetitive. Plus I didn’t really grow to root for any of the characters. But the vivid (intense) atmosphere of this book was great!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

meganrae047's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infertility, and Grief

Minor: Death of parent and Sexual harassment

amberinbookland's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

whatvictoriaread's review against another edition

mysterious slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Death of parent

oliviafaye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Infertility, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Vomit

field_of_books's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

2.0

Well, this book sucked.

Okay I’m going to try not to be 100% negative. But no, I didn’t enjoy this book.

This book was an average, three star, lacklustre thriller until I got to the end and it’s star rating took a nose dive out of the sky. Get it? Because they were in a plane crash? Ok…

So the book takes place from two perspectives, Lori and her sister Erin’s. As our story goes on I began to like Lori, she was resilient as all hell. But I never got attached to Erin, her character just wasn’t very interesting to me. So I spent her side of the book feeling quite detached. 

The pacing was a bit all over the place, if it were me I probably would have cut it down by 100 pages and made the pacing a bit more dicey!  

As I said I hated the ending, but not everyone will! 

Basically I thought this book sucked but I don’t wanna make out that this is the worst book I’ve ever read or anything. It’s not even the worst I’ve read all year! 

🐙🐙/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Infertility, and Sexual violence

Minor: Grief and Death of parent