Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

37 reviews

purfinks's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and War

smithe22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Violence, and Death of parent

dumplinghime's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

debz57a52's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Connolly has taken the story of a real boy sucked into a brutal fairy tale world and made it a tremendously serious coming-of-age story.  His ability to include the descriptions of the setting and character that really give me - as the reader - the heebie geebies is undeniable.  That being said, this is a brutal and gory book, much more gory I think than the real Grimm fairy tales I've read, and I would not recommend this for the squeamish.  I would also not recommend it for readers with overactive imaginations, if they like to read before bed (like me), nor really to middle grade or below readers.  David sees and does some truly disturbing things in his time Elsewhere, and I really started disliking him as he learned the hard lessons and "grew up."  I had to force myself to finish the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mystikbabe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-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? Yes

2.0

The main character is incredibly unlikeable. The women in the book were not written like 3 dimensional beings but rather as tools to further male character development. It’s almost unnecessarily dark and it tried so hard to be deep. And yet, it still sucked me in and I couldn’t put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

Moderate: Animal cruelty

cnohero's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

 A terrifying retelling of Fairytales. Morbid yet creative. I would would have had nightmares if these were the tales I’d been told as a child. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Child death and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, and Death of parent

nerdyllamas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Terminal illness