Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers

4 reviews

breathehopebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.5

I truly do not care one iota for

Atretes’s

storyline until the very end, and even then only in context to

Julia and Hadassah.

And i completely forgot about how historically accurate this story is in its details of Roman/Ephesian culture. It was really hard to read at times but it was very thoroughly researched, and we’ll just leave it at that…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gaslighting, Death, Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, War, and Antisemitism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Rape, Incest, Pedophilia, Child death, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

This is Christian fiction; however, it’s meant to be more evangelical, and I would be hesitant to recommend to more reserved readers because of how intense the content is. I would definitely say it’s accurate in its atrocities and horrifying at how nonchalant many of the characters are by their actions and culture, but such was the time period. Stick around for the character growth and the relationship between

Hadassah and Marcus

but if you’re a Christian and find yourself truly upset by the content, then i’d move on.

andiapfel's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Abortion and Violence

Minor: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, and Animal death

emily_grace567's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Murder, Slavery, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Abortion

silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition

Moving this back to my 'want to read' shelf, because what I needed was a lighter but engaging fiction story, and what I got was a description of a family slowly starving to death during the siege of Jerusalem. Probably should have known better, but regardless, I'm NOT up for this read right now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Cannibalism