Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass

28 reviews

peckreadsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Grief, Medical content, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Death

Minor: Blood and Cancer

miafromorchardstreet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Vomit, Terminal illness, Child death, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Grief

youngluteplayer's review

dark tense medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Medical content

centipedes's review

reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, and Death

Minor: Cancer

rgs's review

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Child death, and Grief

khakipantsofsex's review

dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide

min3's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer

applesodaperson's review

dark sad fast-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

4.25

The ending had me staring at the wall in shock.

Read from the Provo library.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Blood and Suicide

caitlong's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Child death, and Death

savvylit's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Emma Glass' writing is beautiful and hypnotic. Rest and Be Thankful is a one -sitting novella that provides an intensely upsetting look into the reality of pediatric end of life care. This narrative is so effective and believable that it was no surprise to find out that the story's narrator and Glass herself share a profession. As the novella progresses, the narrator sleeps less and less and is increasingly desperate for a full night's rest. Her insomnia and hallucinations ultimately lend the book's final pages a hellish nightmare quality.

Much like Mieko Kawakami's Heaven, Rest and Be Thankful is an excellent book that put me in a real life depressive funk. I loved it, I hated it, I wouldn't recommend it unless you like books that make you miserable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Infertility, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Child death