Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Les Oiseaux du temps by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

8 reviews

_natalie_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, and War

Minor: Child death and Mental illness

violerwolf's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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? No

3.5

This book wasn’t for me. The prose can be so purposefully opaque that it renders parts of the book barely understandable. And while I’m sure that some people enjoy that, personally I think that no matter how cerebral a book is, you should be able to imagine what the characters are doing when the author describes simple actions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Torture, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

miss_sunshine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

mobymaize's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Holy shit this book rocks my socks off. I genuinely love sci-fi that doesn’t need need a complete explanation or description of super complicated politics. I just need my time & space lesbians and I’m happy :)

Also romance through letters and missives is incredible. Especially when it’s queer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

spookily's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Vomit, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Okay, so: hmm. Wow. It took me a while to get into this book--at first, I was only really interested in the letters, and found the lead-up to them kind of boring. But eventually the book got me hooked enough that I was engaged by all of it (though still the letters held almost all the good parts imo). I wrote down a lot of quotes I liked. This book feels like one I would have loved in high school or even just a few years ago, but now I just liked it. It was written beautifully and made me cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Genocide, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Child death and Sexual content

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Self harm, Medical content, Stalking, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, and Alcohol

Insects, spiders. Illness.

thevampiremars's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

If you like this book (and I know a lot of people really do), don’t take my disappointment as an indication that you’re wrong to feel the way you do. I’m glad you enjoyed it, but I just didn’t.

Red and Blue make purple, and this prose sure is purple. Every. Single. Sentence. Is trying so hard to be poetic and deep. Metaphors are great and all but this is just too saturated with them to make any real sense. The characters and their relationship didn't feel especially substantive to me. I like the combination of spirituality and science fiction and there’s some neat imagery here and there, but for the most part I found This Is How You Lose the Time War to be a confusing mess and nothing more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail