Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Orleans by Sherri L. Smith

5 reviews

her_little_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Vomit and Death of parent

Minor: Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and War

hannah_marie5314's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Blood, Confinement, Abandonment, and Excrement

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Violence, Death, Blood, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Vomit, War, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Suicidal thoughts

emilyready's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.0

Promising premise but not executed well. Appropriation of Native terms such as "tribes" and "powwow" didn't sit well with me. Neither did the

separation of Asian people into their own section of Orleans because the Delta Fever affected them differently for some reason? And the attempt at creating a pidgin language of Asian languages was in poor taste.

I was really looking forward to this book and was disappointed to see it fall short.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cultural appropriation and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape, Death, Death of parent, War, Drug use, and Drug abuse