Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Arcadia by Lauren Groff

3 reviews

deenmachine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

Lauren Groff has never written a bad thing in her life!! This was an immersive book that brings you into its world. Characters were richly developed and felt real. I blasted through the first half because it was so engrossing seeing adult issues through a kid's eyes. I didn't expect this book to have such an accurate and loving depiction of end of life and caregiving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Addiction, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage and Adult/minor relationship

edamamebean's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This was such a beautiful book, and I wept on and off through the last fifty pages. I don’t know how Lauren Groff always does that to me. No one can convince me she’s not a prophet, either. Reading this book ten years after it was written, it’s really spooky knowing that

an extremely similar virus actually came to pass around the same time that she predicted

in this novel. She encompasses so many themes in this book—life and death, inevitability of what awaits us with climate change, coming of age. It was soso good, just so good. I’m now on a mission to read every single one of Lauren Groff’s novels before The Vaster Wilds comes out in September. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Rape, Animal death, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

tennilles's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship