Reviews tagging 'Death'

Góry śpiewają by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

125 reviews

ostraca's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful informative 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, War

jenambrose's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, War

Moderate: Terminal illness

idk_indigo's review against another edition

4.5

emotional sad 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: No

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This was so beautifully written and narrated. Very sad book. I enjoyed the characters coming to life and the unveiling of a history that isn't really talked about in the US (at least not in my small section of it). It gives me a new perspective of the Vietnam War, and the hippie movement and everything. Despite the sad history the characters still come to life, the setting of Vietnam itself is very well done. Etc. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Physical abuse, Abortion, Colonisation

zara89's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Violence, War

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Vomit

yu_1hng's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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cried a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Abortion, Murder

ebj5's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Rape, Suicide, War

ruthie_the_librarian's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I realised as I read this that my knowledge of the Vietnam war was based almost entirely of fuzzy memories of 'Mash' being on TV as a child, meaning I really didn't know very much about the country or the people at all.  This is a huge (in scope) story, spanning several decades and giving us the stories of Grandma Tran Dieu Lan and her granddaughter Huong.  It is violent, brutal, shocking, moving and brave.  At some points I wasn't sure I could keep reading as it was so sad, but I really wanted to see where the story would go.  The two strong female characters are brave, and I was fully committed to their stories, even when I didn't always like their actions.  I'm really glad my friend chose this for our book group to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Abandonment

tyeshaamber's review against another edition

4.25

emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War

Moderate: Death, Murder

Minor: Rape, Suicide

thepassivebookworm's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring sad 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Rape, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

crys_tel's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-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: No

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This book has everything, historical background that extends over 5 decades, strongly developed characters, fairly enthralling plot and very deep and complex reflections. Nguyen Phan Qué Mai is very eloquent and graceful in her writing which puts a nice bow on the hole thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Rape, Grief, Colonisation, War