Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain

5 reviews

quinniantheduck's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Child death, and Child abuse

thealienamongus's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Medical content, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Terminal illness, Homophobia, Child death, and Colonisation

Minor: Pregnancy and Death of parent

josie9's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

only read to listen to katie mcgrath’s voice for 11 hours and 57 minutes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Excrement

p_ttyb_tch's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

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

1.0

Not worth the time. 1) The half-baked "romance" between Julietta and Jane (arguably the crux of the story) is dubious at best. At worst? Downright predatory and exploitative. Julietta's experience, weighed against Jane's apparent innocence in regards to sexuality and sexual expression, creates an unbalanced dynamic that often becomes uncomfortable. 
2) Valentine Ross' inexplicable derailment into a violent misogynist comes out of nowhere. One (!!!) refusal of marriage is enough to make the once mild-mannered doctor frequently fantasise about strangling, subjugating and otherwise harming Jane,

which culminates in an outburst that leaves her bed-ridden after a miscarriage leads to life-threatening hemorrhaging.

It's disgusting. 
3) The framing of Ralph Savage's relationship with his servant is also not good. There seems to be an implication that, because Leon holds some weird sexual power over Ralph, they are somehow equal under circumstances where that is just... not possible. Ick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Minor: Child death, Racism, and Suicide

librariangeorgia's review

challenging emotional slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Gore

Minor: Cancer