Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee, Kathleen DeGrave

7 reviews

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death of parent, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gore, Racism, Antisemitism, Grief, Pregnancy, Animal death, Child death, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Sexual assault, Sexism, Child abuse, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Rape, Violence, and Excrement

Minor: Cannibalism and Confinement

reedsky's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Police brutality, Death of parent, Rape, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

summboo's review against another edition

reflective slow-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

5.0

Intense book that causes you to reflect on capitalist systems

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Death of parent

Moderate: Trafficking, Sexual assault, Child death, Abandonment, and Grief

Minor: Grief

The book is intense I’m it’s descriptions of poverty and the food industry in the early 1900s. Parts of the book are unsettling and difficult to read because they are trauma spawning events for the main character

jax00's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense slow-paced

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

3.75

It was wordy and hard to follow. However, it spoke about issues facing Americans during the 1900s. It highlighted unfair working conditions and living conditions. This is also the perfect example of Murphy's Law.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

grrr8_catsby's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Death, Gore, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Rape

grayscale08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

amanileb's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, and Violence