Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

46 reviews

shugentobler's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

This book was beautifully hard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Death of parent, and Self harm

allisoncc's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Islamophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Dysphoria, and Medical content

Moderate: Outing, Miscarriage, War, Racism, Pregnancy, Animal death, and Dementia

Minor: Chronic illness

lprongs's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Racism, Death of parent, Grief, Sexism, Child death, Body horror, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Colonisation and Transphobia

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

jennswan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Dysphoria, Grief, Transphobia, Racism, Misogyny, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Sexual assault

purlewe's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Animal death, Body horror, Grief, Blood, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

lego28's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

rhi_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Dysphoria

Minor: Racism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Lesbophobia

sydneyl23's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Xenophobia, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Islamophobia

Minor: Child death, Animal death, and Sexual content

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Grief, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Medical content, Blood, Gaslighting, Sexism, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Minor: War, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, and Dementia

Colorism

reading_mermaid's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This is an incredible book, fullfullfull of emotion and heartache and hope and community. 

It is incredibly well written and laid out with endearing, lovable characters. I so highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racism, Death of parent, Dysphoria, and Islamophobia

Minor: Hate crime and Sexual harassment