Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

28 reviews

kc_sears's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Grief, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Car accident

lv_reads's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, and Abandonment

franklola's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

You will cry and cry and cry and cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Police brutality

Moderate: Abandonment and Infidelity

Minor: Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, and Bullying

heatherjo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

emilycara's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

victoriarosalesvt's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

The writing was good, and I liked how fast paste and short the chapters were, but it was just not what I was expecting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

bookedwithbonnie's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

3.5

Such an infuriating way to tell a really good story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

staylorreads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

Minor: Body shaming

lingoreads's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual assault

amyvl93's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective 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

3.0

 This novel felt like a mash-up of Lessons in Chemistry and all those novels about messy heroines, only this one is in her 40s. Grace was a languages prodigy, winning national competitions and finding herself propelled into quiz show presenter fame. Now, she's 45 and desperately trying to get her 16-year-old daughter to connect with her again.

We are told this story in three timelines; we have the 'now', the day of Lottie her daughter's 16th birthday, a few months earlier where we start to get insights as to why the relationships on the page are in the state that they are now, and going way back to the start of Grace's career and when she meets Ben, Lottie's father. These timelines are generally effectively used; though there were times when I wanted to go back to understanding the relationships, rather than reading about Grace's present day 'snap' which mostly consisted of her shouting at people as she walked through a heatwave to Lottie's birthday.

I did appreciate Littlewood discussing the impact of aging on women's lives within this novel, and who is and isn't seen, and who gets to hold space publicly as they age - particularly when children are added into the picture. I felt that the depictions of the mother/daughter relationship often felt very real. I felt the event that sat behind Lottie and Grace's estrangement was dealt with well - even if I'm not sure other character's reactions felt particularly understandable.

There is, however, at times almost too much going on in this novel and some of those layers weren't always effective. I had to re-read a couple of sections to understand the source of tension between Grace and Ben. I'm also tiring slightly of female characters in novels being open about not wanting children and then the plot being that they have them anyway. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Miscarriage