Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois

8 reviews

aexileigh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, and Vomit

lizardteeth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Vomit, Violence, Alcohol, Gore, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Torture, and Stalking

Moderate: Sexual assault and Physical abuse

noonanjohnc's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Blood, Gore, Child death, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Excrement, Death, Animal death, Child abuse, and Stalking

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Car accident

jacquelinescifres's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Gore, Grief, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Excrement, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

noveltay's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

If you have ever read The Troop by Nick Cutter, this is right up your alley. I do not think this book is for the squeamish or emotional person, as this is all about children dying (some in horrific ways). Keep that in mind. But for the horror aspect: this was incredibly written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

chloseencounter's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I don’t know what I was expecting, I went into this read pretty blind to what it was about. I’m not sure what I thought it was going to be, but definitely not what it was…

This novel was beautifully written and brutal, the descriptions of graphic violence where some of the most agonizing and genuine I’ve ever read but that’s sort of all this story had to offer. I kept waiting for there to be some sort of lesson or point to the brutality but there just wasn’t. I just keep coming back to the why of it all. You may expect a story to have a plot, or a lesson, or even be a character study but to me, it just wasn’t any of those things. I suppose it was meaning to stand for loss of innocence but I didn’t even get enough time and introspection with each character to see that. I suppose if anything the ending was…ironic, I guess.

Spoiler

The hunter becomes the hunted.

I don’t think of myself as someone who is bothered by violence but also I don’t really find joy in reading about the terrible and upsetting deaths of six year olds, one after another…and for what? Was it some weird metaphor for Darwinism? I honestly have no idea and at the end of the day that left me with a lot to be desired. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Violence, Alcohol, Murder, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Torture

elsebeok's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

Moderate: Excrement, Grief, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol and Sexual harassment

wrensreadingroom's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Violence, Child abuse, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Body horror, Bullying, and Child death