Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

183 reviews

142whoopingllamas's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.0

This was an okay book, but there were very few content warnings so I was blindsided by them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

While not technically incest, William divorces Julia and then marries her sister, which feels extremely weird.

dizzymisslizzy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia

erinriker's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent and Injury/Injury detail

emilybartonspinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

cheaploaf's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I feel like this book could’ve been shorter and still accomplished the same result. Felt pretty slow. I enjoyed the writing style. The book wasn’t bad, just overall fine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy

macykey's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I was so emotional reading this book. This book is the perfect manifestation that two things can be true at once. You can have made some shitty choices that hurt people, but they still were the best choices for you and you’re happy with the outcome. You can have made choices that were the best choice for you at the time, but later on you realize it might not have been the best choice. You can be mad at people, but still love them with your whole heart. You can go years without speaking to someone and then come back together and it’s like picking up where you left off. I loved every single Padavano sister. I loved Kent, I would read a whole book just on Kent. I even loved William. I loved how

Alice embodied William’s best and worst qualities even though she had never met him before. She was tall like him, she had his spirit, she had his physical features, but she also had some of his mental health problems.

This book also gave me a newfound appreciation for all the time I got to spend with my Memaw in the years leading up to her death. This book takes place mostly in the 80’s and, when I read books like this one that take place in a specific time period, I often wonder why the author wrote the series of events in that time period. Especially because a lot of the time, you could easily transpose the book onto a different time period and it’d more or less be the same book. But with this one, I get it. You need the time period to give a little context or set the stakes higher for certain things that happen. The time period itself helps explain the motives of some of the characters even if the characters don’t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent

uninvestedreader's review against another edition

emotional 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent

wonderreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, and Abandonment

nicoledg's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

ladynavalon's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective 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

4.0

This book is about depreession and generacional trauma. I enjoyed, I think the autor knows pretty well what depression is, but don't read It if you want some cozy Little women retelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment