Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Angelfall by Susan Ee

17 reviews

prashiie's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

“When you're small enough to have to look up at everyone around you, there's no such thing as a dirty fight.”

Basically, the world as we know it has ended, angels are everywhere and humans are trying to survive. An interesting plot! We have angels against angels and Penryn who is trying to survive with her little sister who is in a wheelchair and mother who has schizophrenia and is both intriguing and scary. I didn’t expect her mother to survive and I was surprised to see how self-reliant she was when left on her own. I hope she’ll get a bigger role in the next two books.

The writing felt a little off in the beginning, mainly because of the over-explaining and this made it harder to really get into the book. But I have to say that it got better or maybe I just got used to it. The story also got more interesting later on, so that helps!

Now I’m debating whether to read the other books or not. I didn’t love this book, it was okay but on the other hand

I want to know how Paige ended up in a wheelchair–because I don’t believe it’s their mother’s fault–and why the angels are even on Earth and what is going on with them.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Slavery, and Vomit

bsmulca's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Mental illness

psliz's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-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? No

1.0

so beyond ableist i couldn't finish (DNF'd at page 71). but it gave me the opportunity to finally give myself permission to dnf books and the opportunity to get educated on ableist terms/phrases

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Ableism, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Medical trauma, Murder, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Cannibalism, War, and Child abuse

Minor: Abandonment and Child death

karaboureview's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Cannibalism, Death, Child abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Sexism, and Ableism

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Trafficking, Genocide, Adult/minor relationship, War, and Abandonment

abesreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual harassment

Minor: Kidnapping

tinkithesquirelll's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Confinement, Chronic illness, Death, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Dementia, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War, Violence, Sexual harassment, Outing, Gore, Murder, Medical content, Vomit, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Torture, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

celery's review against another edition

None of the characters are likable. I couldn't understand how there was any chemistry between the two main characters and the protagonist was someone I couldn't root for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child death, Cannibalism, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Sexual assault, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

marallellogram's review against another edition

it had so much potential and was very good in the beginning, it was so addicting that I saw past the warning signs but then I just felt nope- it's too much for me and too bizarre. it's a shame, it had such good banter but then just, nope, no thank you

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Gore, and Child death

Moderate: Cannibalism and Blood

Minor: Vomit

loniceralibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Cannibalism, and Body horror

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Trafficking, and War

Minor: Kidnapping and Vomit

gcaron0328's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? No

4.0

Even though I liked it, I have a couple criticisms. One being the demonization of schizophrenia and the other being sl*t shaming.

the main character’s mother has schizophrenia and this is demonstrated by the mother being extremely violent and not mentally sound. It is hinted that in the past she injured her child in such a way that the child can no longer walk. The main character cannot reason with her mother. Much later in the story, the main character has to wear a revealing dress in order to get into the enemy lair. She refers to the outfit as sl*tty and judges the other women there who are wearing similar outfits in order to get the good graces of the enemy. It also is very anti-s*x work in that scene.<\spoiler> despite all this, i still liked the book and im excited to read the second one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual harassment