Reviews tagging 'Death'

Year Of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

18 reviews

sunshine899's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

Wow. Just... wow. This was a great book and I'm so glad I read it, but it was BRUTAL! I was not surprised to learn that the author is a journalist who has spent time reporting in war-torn countries. I had to make sure to have uplifting things happening outside my reading so it didn't put me in a depressed mood. There were a lot of gruesome descriptions of violence and death.

Year of Wonders is about so much more than battling the sickness of the plague in a small village that quarantined to keep it from spreading outside its walls. It's about how it affected the people psychologically, how it caused them to turn on each other, and also brought moments of wonder.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Death, Gore, Alcoholism, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

zosiablue's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad 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? No

4.0

"I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders."

This took such a wild left turn at the end that I kind of forgot everything I was going to say about it. It felt like for most of the book (well-written) trauma porn about the plague and how men make everything harder for women, and then there was just...that last 25%! Huh! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Death, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Abortion, Classism, Misogyny, Infertility, and Infidelity

april0686's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Self harm

ganieva's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Toxic relationship and Sexual content

gail_dancer's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

The beautiful prose of this timepieced novel caressed me as a welcome change from other recent modern novels I’d read. Anna was a complex and likeable lead character whose personal growth spanned large from start to finish. Some unexpected and rash circumstances near the end of the book disappointed me, but all in all  an enjoyable interesting read. The situation of how the village experienced and dealt with the Plague was eerily familiar post-Covid-19. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Gore, Death, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Suicide, Self harm, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Infertility, Grief, Child death, and Blood

s_mivsek's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Child death, and Sexual content

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, Murder, and Self harm

bookishbakesco's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Mental illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Child abuse

rosalind's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Blood, Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Vomit, Slavery, Rape, Excrement, and Religious bigotry

rld1727's review against another edition

2.75

This book was a weird ride. I didn’t love it, but I stuck around because I had read reviews of how the plot goes kind of haywire later on in the book - it does, indeed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Vomit, Sexism, Death, Medical content, Blood, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Grief

kelseak96's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Torture, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Child abuse