Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

12 reviews

ariajb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

the original hot girl summer ☼
absolutely love these girls  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death

Minor: Suicide

sare1125's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Sexual content

amber2005's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, and Death of parent

soph_mills's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Medical trauma, and Animal death

Minor: Body shaming, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, and Death

kkshaye's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, and Child death

Moderate: Body shaming, Abandonment, Fatphobia, and Racism

Minor: Death of parent

jackshortstack's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Grief

Minor: Death of parent

ameliaflint's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted relaxing 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

2.25

This was okay. I enjoyed it, I guess. Except for a bunch of things. For one, I hated every single character except for Bapi and Bailey. The main girls were all terrible people who mostly didn’t have to own up for their terrible actions. Additionally, while it is YA, the writing was incredibly simplistic. So basic that I found it not enjoyable to read. Also, I wasn’t really invested in any of the stories. The only one that felt at all authentic and interesting was Tibby’s. It is for Bailey and the fact that despite everything, inexplicably, I did like this read that this gets 2 stars instead of 1. Or 0.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

aguattery's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

It's a good coming of age story but reading it as an adult it's very cringe. There are a lot of topics this hits on that are very uncomfortable to read. I also think some of the main characters were annoying we're almost glad when they got knocked down a peg. I also dont think the author should be writing characters of color. She really played into stereotypes and the character fell flat and two dimensional. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Child death

Moderate: Cancer and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism and Death of parent

itschelseaw's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.0

The rating (4 stars) is from when I first rated it in Goodreads back in high school. I loved this series as a teenager, and enjoyed brushing off The Pants again as an adult. I’m not sure if my rating now would change because these books were so special to me as a child that it feels wrong to rate them less.
Carmen and Tibby’s stories were the most touching to me as an adult, and as a pre-teen reading this I think I longed for Lena’s story the most. Bee’s story broke my heart both as a preteen and as an adult for vastly different reasons.
There were parts of the book that were rough (the intro with the racist dog eating thing), and others that were so indicative of the time the book was written/published. Like Carmen’s dad picking her up at her gate in the airport. Such a bygone thing!!

Both times I read this story I came to the conclusion that Carmen’s dad is a dick (preteen me would say “jerk”), and that still stands. He’s a grown man that never mentioned proposing to someone??? Moving in with them??? In all the times he visited the DC area and saw Carmen??? What the absolute fuck!!!
Also Eric, what a scumbag. Truly what a gross dude. Yeah, he resisted for a bit but… then he didn’t. And it’s on him to keep that boundary. He’s the adult. Just gross.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Cancer, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Death of parent and Suicide

thatgirlemili's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, and Child death

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Suicide