Reviews tagging 'Grief'

All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

63 reviews

lauwbinx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Homophobia, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Murder, Death of parent, Suicide, Child death, Vomit, and Violence

katebella's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Violence, Homophobia, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Minor: Child death

phosphenes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Cursing, Hate crime, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

Minor: Racism, Sexism, Ableism, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

teslis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Me and my friend have both had this book on our shelves for ages and now we read it together! 
It was a bit slow in the beginning and I didn’t get that far in it before putting it down. So I wasn’t super interested in the beginning. 
But, as I was reading I got so hooked, I read like 2/3 of the book in like 36 hours (including sleeping and working). I was stuck, but there were some parts that I didn’t enjoy that much or feel weird about.

Them finding the Fosters and Jamie thinking about how he is in love, them kissing when they’ve been captured by propel who don’t like queer people and also the end meh

But overall it was a nice read, I was not ready for the more intense and “scary” parts of it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Blood, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Slavery, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

broke's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective relaxing sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Grief, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Racism

lydiaurban's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Hate crime, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Homophobia, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

earftoalex's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

the perfect queer post apocalyptic book i’ve been looking for. i loved the characters like i was there and felt their pain like i was them 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Terminal illness, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

kaz_brekker1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-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: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia

carina_dreamer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

When I finished this book, on the spot, nothing bad came to mind to point out! 

🌈 Dystopian books scare my anxiety. I like that they're meant to cause discussion and discomfort, but I want to read to escape my anxiety...
Given that this is a book about a post-apocalyptic world that went through a super-flu after COVID and lost like 90% of the population, I was still iffy about it. It didn't bring out bad memories from the Pandemic for me, but there are topics about grief over family members, so be careful.
(Note: it was written before the coronavirus and the author had to make little changes before publishing)

🌈 Our main characters are: Andrew, a sassy gay teen, who stumbles with his injured leg on Jamison/Jamie's cabin. Jamie, a gentle and lonely teen, ends up saving his life and leg thanks to the medical diary his mother left him.
While Andrew recovers on Jamie's couch for a few weeks, the boys grow closer and their existences become irreplaceable for each other.
For some reason, they leave the cabin (as the map shows at the beginning of the book) and their friendship is put to the test many times. Finding food, and shelter, greeting or avoiding survivors, secret agendas and questions of the heart will be some of the things floating in their minds.

🌈 Their growing friendship and bond are great and compensate for the slow burn in their romance. I value every moment they thought about how they saw each other and how they felt, especially Jamie discovering himself.

🌈 This is mostly a book about two boys surviving together. They are broken by their own experiences and are put to the test by the harsh environment and people.

🌈 While reading this book there were many times I forgot I was reading. The vibes are perfect for autumn, despite being a late spring/early summer book. I like the author's writing a lot and I will recommend this book always.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐+💛

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Misogyny, Child death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

pkc's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

A queer take on a post apocalyptic narrative. I was so enamoured by this book. The characters were beautifully formed, the romance was a tantalising slow burn and so achingly tender. Enough plot to keep me engaged too! I just wish there had been some more resolution to threads that appeared early on. I thought as well that it was particularly intriguing that this was a pandemic story that referenced Covid but didn’t rely too heavily on it. It framed Covid in a more hopefully light merely by including it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Child death, Gaslighting, Medical content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Violence, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Gun violence, and Death of parent