Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

211 reviews

ashley_dreaming's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

enoemo's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Grief, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Rape, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Vomit

melanieripple's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Murder

vvaanneessssaa's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Excrement, Vomit, and Stalking

Minor: Cancer

sebsjazzclub's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-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

5.0

What a beautiful book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Rape, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Murder

s_wells1019's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Rape, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

jordan_noel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

Eleanor Oliphant describes how loneliness can completely eat at a person's whole life, and yet still feel like something that must be hidden away.

Eleanor Oliphant is funny, completely un-self-aware, and refreshingly blunt with her social observations. She's continuously shocking and increasingly loveable the more you get to know her.

I felt that this book can help anyone better understand how isolating "dark thoughts" can be, and how necessary simple social interactions are to our survival and, less dramatically, our well-being. Everybody needs a friend, no one is completely self-sufficient and happy, in spite of that being exactly what society seems to want from each of us. I loved the honesty in this book; it's the only way for people to truly heal and live better lives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cursing

felijhn's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Grief, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Stalking

mical45's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

sarahhanlin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

Charming, intriguing, heartbreaking, beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, and Death of parent