Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

7 reviews

marlephant's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer

mikaylaslibrary's review

3.75

I think I would've liked this more if I had read it before watching the show, but it was amazing nonetheless. 

The mixture of myth and modern was so well done, and I after watching the show it was very easy to picture evruthing that happened.   

Ritchie and Maggie are so cute, and I'm glad that their relationship developed in a more positive way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Blood, Dementia, Abandonment, and Alcohol

the_wistful_word_witch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book made me really sad. It's not at all what I expected. But it's still incredibly well written and you feel like you're right there, going through everything together with Jared, the young protagonist. 

Poor Jared's life is all kinds of fucked up, thanks to his parents - the biological and the non-biological - and the world around him - the physical and the metaphysical. Jared's too young to be so jaded and dealing with all the shit he's dealing with in this first book. 

His world gets shattered in more ways than one, but there seems to be a big change coming by the end, hopefully for the better in the next two books. But since he's the son of a Trickster, that might not be so easy, if it's even possible... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer

maregred's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Colonisation

Minor: Addiction, Homophobia, Incest, Racism, Stalking, and Pregnancy

planreadrepeat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, and Dementia

nullandvoidlibrary's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer and Dementia

Minor: Transphobia

kimiwriter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I really liked this book. Jared has a hard life and there are points he feels helpless but he is always trying to do something about it. The way he's always trying to take care of everyone resonated with me. He makes bad choices but is also prepared to live with those choices. The magical aspect was a bit surprising and I wanted a second book with a bit more explanation for this and to see where things would go, but this book is self contained and doesn't need anything else. I will be picking up more by this author. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Dementia