Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

84 reviews

fahyhallowell's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

Loved the story line with Jane 23, Owl and

Spoiler

Blue

<3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Slavery

Moderate: Child death and Injury/Injury detail

sarasreading's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I liked this one even more than the first book. I really enjoyed focusing on two characters and Pepper's journey especially. There are some upsetting things that happen to her, but even with that, I found this book to be really comforting and hopeful. And it makes me more excited for the next one in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child abuse, Animal death, and Slavery

Moderate: Child death

emmablue's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child abuse

Moderate: Child death

effievee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Slavery

annamorgan27's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Blood, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Cursing

sulinde's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

A by turns charming, riveting and heartbreaking portrait of someone learning how to feel at home in themselves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Dysphoria, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Child abuse, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

mkwoods's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Man I love Becky Chambers’ work! Her ability to imagine and articulate the mind and experiences of a sentient AI are just incredible here. Some passages reminded me of the beautiful descriptions of code in Alif the Unseen.

I knew going in that this book wouldn’t focus on the main characters from A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and I wasn’t sure how I would feel about that. It wasn’t an issue at all! I absolutely loved this one just as I loved the first. I took almost a year in between reading the two books which I think helped me not miss the other characters too much.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Child death

madzobean's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Animal death

Moderate: Slavery and Death

ratatouilllie's review against another edition

adventurous sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Cursing, Death, Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Colonisation, Violence, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Infertility, Excrement, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Xenophobia, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Gore

chf1895's review

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Gore