Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

16 reviews

bxnny's review

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Suicide

Minor: Cursing

wasabiapple's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Grief horror and existentialist dread in hauntingly beautiful prose. There were gorgeous, sad passages that knocked the breath out of me. I know that this one is going to stay with me through the years.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Abortion

_annemarie_'s review

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

nathiddles_106's review

dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

The story's pacing was a luttle slow and the switch of POVs between the two MC, Simon and Marie, was a bit confusing.
This story is an exploration of grief and how some family cannot move on.
The ending was dark.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, and Grief

elysianbud's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.0

Very prettily written with some lovely turns of phrase. Eerie atmosphere. Predictable plot, but I think that's the point--it's tragic, you know how it ends because it tells you near the beginning, the interest is how they get to that conclusion. Characters are not nice people at all though, makes it very hard to care about them. 
Short, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kimberleydawn's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Devastating but doesn’t leave you depressed. Hopefully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail