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Krása, ktorá pretrvá by Ashley Woodfolk

6 reviews

yayarose's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective 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? No

5.0

Honestly one of the best books I have read. This is a beautiful story featuring 3 characters moving through the grieving process. Their grief and development was handled with such care. I could fully empathize with each character and felt how they were feeling in the moment. Having dealt with different kinds of grief myself I truly enjoyed reading this and growing with them. 10/10 would recommend this book to other people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Grief, Suicide, and Terminal illness

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

3.5

This book is all about grief and struggling to find oneself after the death of a loved one. This is a book that I had to be in the right headspace to read and sometimes it was really hard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Death, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Blood

ladygetslit's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Car accident, Outing, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Suicide

addyson_raelynn's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicide

teora's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Homophobia

plumpaperbacks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

I didn’t know much about this book before starting it, and even contemplated taking it off my TBR so I could focus on other books. I’m so glad I read it, though, because now I know that Ashley Woodfolk is a brilliant author, one definitely worth watching.

This is one of the saddest contemporaries I’ve ever read, but also one of the best portrayals of grief I’ve ever seen. I loved all of the characters (except maybe Rohan), and I would really like to give Autumn, Logan, Shay and Dante enormous hugs.

I loved the way music helped all of them through their grief, and how, in the end, they helped each other. I loved the friendships in this book, and Autumn and Dante’s budding romance was so adorable. I loved the way this book didn’t have a perfect ending, but still a hopeful one, and that throughout it all was a reminder to appreciate the beauty that remains after loss. (Also, in that context, isn’t that just a beautiful, poetic title?? Props to Woodfolk for that. 👏🏻)

This is an undeniably heavy read, but if it’s one you can handle, I highly recommend it. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it.

Representation

• Black protagonist
• Korean protagonist
• gay protagonist
• queer side characters (includes sapphic and gay rep)
• side characters of color (includes Black and Latine rep)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Alcohol, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

All things tagged moderate happened prior to the story, but are mentioned frequently throughout.