Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Cristina, Hija de Lavrans by Sigrid Undset

4 reviews

anotherauthor's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-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? Yes

4.75

Undset transports you to a different time beautifully, pulling the reader into a woman’s life throughout decades. Though at times slow, the book’s plot kept drawing me back in. In a re-read, I would more slowly contemplate the heavy religious themes in the book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

taural41's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War

Minor: Death of parent and Murder

victoria_annette's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

I love this book. I read it as a teenager and enjoyed it, but then I read it as an adult and was absolutely floored by it. Completely absorbing, strangely realistic for a novel written in the 1920's about the 1300's, and (to this reader at least, as a wife and a mother) hauntingly relatable. Worth rereading at every stage of life, I'd think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Miscarriage

savgulick's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Physical abuse