Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

29 reviews

ksuazo94's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Medical trauma, Medical content, Car accident, Child abuse, Infertility, and Abandonment

errie's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Car accident, and Child abuse

jesseybean's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Car accident, and Child abuse

mghrt06's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse

kalira's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

A sweet and absolutely lovely journey through soft-edged adventures, friendships and connection, and memories, told largely from an excellently-done and clever feline perspective. The devotion shared by Nana and Satoru (and to some extent, all the people Satoru knew and had so many memories with) is presented with a beautifully understated yet strongly continuing thread.

By the time I reached the ending I fully expected it to make me cry, and that it did, but it was beautifully done and the tears were sorrowful but not wrenching.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Infertility

butterymax's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I cried.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment, Murder, and Child abuse

Near the beginning of the book, a cat is injured when it’s struck by a car. There is a little bit of description about the shape the cat is in afterwards.

The cat’s leg bone is sticking out.

Those who are especially squeamish, take care.

e_reader's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Oh my god. This book was so wonderful. I couldn’t find a single thing wrong with it, so it was an easy five stars. 

It’s narrated in first person by the cat, with frequent asides to describe the characters’ histories together. It has the classic structure of Japanese lit where each chapter focuses on a different person or topic. 

I definitely cried at the end too. I think the translator did a wonderful job, communicating all the turns of phrase and beautiful imagery. The flowers, oh man…

Anyway, you should definitely read this book! It took me less than 24 hours and was so worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Abandonment, Child abuse, Animal death, and Infertility

tamtam01's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, and Terminal illness

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

Minor: Abandonment and Child abuse

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Car accident, Child abuse, Cancer, Death of parent, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abandonment and Animal death

margaretahall's review

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Cancer, and Car accident

Minor: Abandonment