Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy

12 reviews

hookerkitty's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.75

FUCK THE PATRIARCHY

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baenae's review against another edition

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

3.0


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gcot's review against another edition

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

2.25

I struggled to get through this book.
It was extremely slow and repetitive, but then rushed through the action. I mean, a woman was shot in the forehead and then resurrected in less than two pages!
The characters are all deeply stereotypical, from the bra burning gay hippie, to the ditzy blond child star to the homeschooled basement weirdo and finally our MC, the over achieving eldest child.
I found the main character deeply unlikable. She is classic first year med student cliche, acting like she was completing groundbreaking research with only 1.5 semesters under her belt. I also find it immensely unrealistic that a curious and analytically minded woman who hyper analyzed how she came into the world, would never think the learn more about the woman who created her. And yes Josie herself admits to never thinking of her mothers life prior to her entry into it.

The biggest issue for me with this book is the plot holes and unrealistic dialogue. The expectation that a four year old child would have such robust memories, and so many at that, is frankly silly. People do not speak to eachother the way they do in this book half the time.

This book could have done with a better editor and some more critical beta readers, because the idea itself is quite interesting.

And an unfair complaint (unfair because the author reasonably might not know this) is one descriptor of their road trip. When driving into Vermont Josie mentions the billboards she passes. This book is set in the 90s. Billboards were banned in Vermont in the 60s.

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glammster's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-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


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hobblin's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0


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bexi's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I can't get past the part where
there's a romance between two women who consider themselves sisters? And.. nobody thinks that's weird?

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elysh_kaye's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 I was pleasantly surprised with this one. I don't typically read books within this genre, but I got pretty invested. You definitely need to have some patience as the first half is largely slow paced, but the second half is great :) 

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ohhthehorrors's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • 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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lexxie98's review against another edition

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

4.25

The first 2/3 of the book took me a while to get through, a slow burn of story building. The last 1/3, AMAZING! Shocking discoveries that I didn’t see coming. I would suggest to anyone in search of a sapphic, supernatural, fantasy, thriller all rolled into one.

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lyx_sq's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0


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