Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

17 reviews

betsygrace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Really good book with twists I never expected, but the story felt nice and resolved nonetheless

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Hate crime, Child death, Racial slurs, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexism, Abortion, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, and Medical trauma

beccaj11's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

The writing is beautiful, but the book moves slowly for a while. It’s a heavy story with a lot of loss and grief, but the magnified look at a marriage under hardship and a town deeply rooted in its history was incredibly well done. What stopped me from giving this 4.5 or 5 stars? A truly devastating ending that I found completely unnecessary. This book has so much heaviness baked into it and just as the sun starts to shine through, it is torn apart again and honestly, it made me so mad. This writer is an incredibly talented storyteller and scene painter, but I will never forgive them for that ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Death, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Violence, Misogyny, Abortion, Infidelity, and Animal death

Minor: War and Terminal illness

bookswithmybulldog's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Infertility, Child death, Pregnancy, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, Infidelity, Car accident, and Violence

Minor: Abortion

ssternle's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Abortion, and Medical content

jennneely82's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed this book more than I expected! There were parts of the book that drug on, but the overall story and plot development was interesting and informative. I can see how people from a logging community would enjoy this novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

miriamshira's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent

maregred's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Miscarriage, Abortion, Infertility, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Child death, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Alcoholism, and Racism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Racism, and Xenophobia

dwager's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Miscarriage, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Abortion, Infidelity, Racism, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, and Suicide

grahammatthews's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

A Book that feels like it could be a TV series that surprises everyone for how raw and real it is.

Let me start by saying I found this book in the Brightside bookstore in Flagstaff, Arizona. I was on vacation, and instead of buying a book I would normally get, I decided I would pick something from a Local Author. This book caught my eye by not only its beautiful cover, but because the description was something I normally wouldn't read, and seeing Ash Davidson is from Flagstaff, Arizona I bought it. 

With that, Damnation Spring is about a family in a small logging community in Northern California, based in the 1970’s. This book is about 3 key characters: Rich, the Logging Husband, Colleen, the wife who helps the locals with their pregnancies, and Chub, their son! The community is fed off the logging community, and the money it brings in, but it gets flipped on its head when some of the locals have more miscarriages, the Salmon in the rivers are dying, and some of the deer have strange growths. It's led to believe its from the poison the logging company is using to kill the weeds. This is the foundation of the story and how it affects Rich, Colleen, Chub, and the people of the community.

Ash Davidsons writing is beautiful. As I said above I felt it was a hit TV series that swept the nation because of the visuals she built and how it created both Mystery and Tension as I read. I will admit, even with my rating, I did find a few sections of the book feel over descriptive as well, but it only lasted briefly as the story continued to unfold. 

I highly recommend this book to someone who enjoys dramatized TV shows, like Bridgerton or Yellowstone. I haven't read very many books like this before so I can't compare it to others, but I will say what this family goes through, just be prepared to feels all the emotions, i laughed, I cried, I was filled with rage, and I was happy through the course of this story. My heart was constantly being pulled in different directions throughout the entirety of the book.

I give Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson 5 out of 5 Redwood Trees.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death

onewoman_bookclub's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Miscarriage

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Car accident, and Infertility