Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

14 reviews

acogna's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

Dickens proves again his masterful command of the English language. His world of Two Cities is humorous, blunt, treacherous, emotional, but full of hope and faith in humanity. I genuinely tear up whenever I think of this ending, and the love it inspires in any kind of reader. A magnum opus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Child death

silverthorn's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Rape

jobaji's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.25

I never that I would cry at the end of a book I had to read for English class, but here we are! This book has firmly cemented itself as my favorite book by Dickens. Such an interesting story, with a beautiful group of people who love each other so dearly at the center of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, Classism, Death, and Mental illness

rossiell's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Alcohol, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Slavery, Violence, Mental illness, and Child death

Minor: Confinement, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Murder, Death of parent, and Dementia

serena_hien's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death, Murder, Classism, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

sxrxh_lenx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

annapox's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

2 stars for the first half; 3.5 stars for the second half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Violence, Blood, Alcoholism, Classism, Confinement, Mental illness, Death, Medical content, Addiction, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Gun violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Gore, Pregnancy, Rape, Cursing, and Death of parent

hcdelamusique's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-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

4.5

Exquisite. I'm bowled over by my first Dickens. <Spoiler> I do wish that I had read it faster though, as towards the end of the book a great deal from the beginning is resolved. It really moved me and upset me, especially the mass atrocities of the Terror. </Spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Child death, and Murder

madinhoa's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

Very hard to read. Everything is confusing and like a puzzle you have to put together with missing pieces. There are a lot of names that are all very similar and characters that are hard to tell apart. The only interesting thing that happens is in the last 100 pages. I would recommend looking up the spark notes summary and watching it rather than reading the book — it is way harder to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, War, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexism, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Chronic illness, and Child abuse

milton's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Addiction, Violence, Murder, Child death, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Blood, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury