Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Die hundert Jahre von Lenni und Margot by Marianne Cronin

102 reviews

cailinfitzgerald's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abandonment

faerielore's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.25

Sad, but magical.  The type of book where you already know how it ends, but still want to finish it.  I loved how much I cried. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Child death

lingoreads's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Child death, Cancer, and Abandonment

ems_rxlibrary's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: Child death and Dementia

msennflinn's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

"We are in the back of hundreds of people's photographs - moving, talking, blurring into the background of a picture two strangers have framed on their living room mantelpiece. And in that way, we live on too. But it isn't enough. It isn't enough to have been a particle in the great extant of existence. I want, we want, more. We want for people to know us, to know our story, to know who we are and who we will be. And after we're gone, to know who we were."

I can't believe this is Marianne Cronin's debut novel. The stories of Lenni and Margot are going to be forever emblazoned in my mind - they're filled with wit, hope, love, and heartbreak. I hope you pick up this book that - in my opinion - hasn't been talked about enough. Easily sitting pretty at the top of my favorites I've read this year. I can't wait until this author pens another beautiful story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Medical content, and Grief

aimeebenitez4's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child death, and Cancer

buffy87's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

• forced story, didn't feel organic 
• bored until halfway until Margot's story started to take shape
• Lenni's story is quite underfilled
• pushing the connections between all the characters (like what was the purpose of the Temp & the man in the ER)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Medical trauma, Death, Grief, Medical content, Child death, and Chronic illness

macaronsandmermaids's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Terminal illness, Dementia, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Alcohol

eebeck's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Chronic illness

rachelthompson's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Medical content

Moderate: Child death