Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

40 reviews

kukazashi's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcohol, Murder, and Physical abuse

meaghanelizabook's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, Child death, and Suicide

apersonfromflorida's review

emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Animal death

crystalndolis's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I found the structure of the book really interesting. The switching between current ghost-status musings by Kazu with his past memories of being alive and the suffering he experienced made for an interesting narrative. Overall it was a sad life for him, and made the inequities in Japan a main part of his story, too. I wish more characters/motives were more fleshed out, but maybe that was the point. Just trying to survive for him made him not have a lot of personality or goals for life, which is a point in itself.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child death and Suicide

ducktective's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Classism, and Death

deannawalton's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Child death, Animal death, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

natlikestoread's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

lucylou's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I picked this up because of the beautiful cover at my library, and never expected this short story to make me cry multiple times in such a short period. Some musings seemed fairly random, but at its heart it’s a story of people trying to live through the hardships that life gives them.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, Murder, Ableism, and Death of parent

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

this incredibly depressing book highlights family, loss, grief, and poverty. however, it is not particularly memorable imo, I'm writing this quite a bit after finishing it and had to reread the synopsis to jog my memory which isn't a good sign. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent