Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

16 reviews

teanahk's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

An interesting, somewhat unlikeable cast of characters. 
Full of sumptuous descriptions of food. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Racism

Minor: Sexual assault

gmrickel's review against another edition

challenging 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? Yes

4.0

This book is literary fiction + scifi (dystopia) + psychological suspense. If you like reading about flawed, messy, morally grey characters making hard choices and experiencing dream-like oddities, this is a book for you! The writing is lush and complex, and the food descriptions are mouth-watering. The protagonist is bisexual (doesn't use that, or any, self-identifying term, but they describe being with partners of various genders). It ends

on a hopeful note that I wasn't expecting

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I read this to kick off my year of catching up on great 2023 scifi releases, as well as for Torches & Pitchforks (theme: red flag relationships). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Physical abuse

ieatbooks_'s review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

2.25

I was excited going into this cause I thought it was a pretty interesting premise, but I found it very disappointing. It feels like it’s building towards a theme or message, but the experiences of the main character are never meaningfully dissected, or reflected upon. The ending is especially bad, but overall, it’s just messy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Car accident, and Death of parent

chiaraogan's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Child death

dominika_benmichael's review

dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Eating disorder, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

dystopia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexism, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic