Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

24 reviews

silverthorn's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Rape

jobaji's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

I never that I would cry at the end of a book I had to read for English class, but here we are! This book has firmly cemented itself as my favorite book by Dickens. Such an interesting story, with a beautiful group of people who love each other so dearly at the center of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Classism

rossiell's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Mental illness, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

serena_hien's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent

sxrxh_lenx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

annapox's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

2 stars for the first half; 3.5 stars for the second half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

cmbohn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Dementia, and War

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Blood, Alcohol, and Classism

hcdelamusique's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.5

Exquisite. I'm bowled over by my first Dickens. <Spoiler> I do wish that I had read it faster though, as towards the end of the book a great deal from the beginning is resolved. It really moved me and upset me, especially the mass atrocities of the Terror. </Spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Violence, and Murder

madinhoa's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

Very hard to read. Everything is confusing and like a puzzle you have to put together with missing pieces. There are a lot of names that are all very similar and characters that are hard to tell apart. The only interesting thing that happens is in the last 100 pages. I would recommend looking up the spark notes summary and watching it rather than reading the book — it is way harder to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War

milton's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury