Reviews tagging 'Child death'

UnWholly by Neal Shusterman

13 reviews

nclausel25's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Confinement and Police brutality

Minor: Ableism

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

acayton14's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Minor: Cursing and War

taylor_trevino's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

loreful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Murder

Minor: War

Most content ratings continue on from the first installment.

bunky_jones's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Medical content and Kidnapping

kissfist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

UnWholly confronts the nuance and struggle of a world post-band-aid political solutions, and interrogates what it means to be human.  The author utilizes fantastic literary devices with political ads (one of which delivered a gut-wrenching reveal) and narrating from the perspective of inanimate objects.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, and Murder

sassolinosassoletto's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Kidnapping

acornett99's review against another edition

2.0

This series pushes my suspension of disbelief past it’s breaking point. The world makes very little sense and leaves me with too many questions to be comfortable with. 

Some of the language and especially the treatment of Risa comes across as ableist in the ignorant way. It’s also painfully heteronormative. It’s like any time a boy and a girl character have an interaction it’s expected to develop into some form of romantic chemistry. Speaking of, there’s been two or three enemies-to-lovers relationships and while that’s fine on its own, when every enemy relationship turns into lovers, it can get boring and predictable. Finally, how do you have a novel that attempts to tackle how society views teenagers as dangerous criminals without bring up the race element even once? This series tries to talk about so many things but it seems to avoid talking about disability rights, queerness, and race at every turn. When they are mentioned, they’re quickly brushed off or not really saying anything to begin with.

The first book had a compelling scene from the point of view of a kid as he was being unwound. This book has that in the form of Hayden and the 14 kids choosing to die while trapped on the jet. It was easily the best writing in the book, but then it takes a turn when Hayden chickens out and gives up the group to the cops anyway. I felt it undermined a lot of what was great in that chapter.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, and Police brutality

Minor: Car accident

daphrose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail