Reviews tagging 'Death'

Amanhã, amanhã, e ainda outro amanhã by Gabrielle Zevin

1437 reviews

ameliaclarkson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, and Abortion

meglic's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, and Abortion

xila17's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

made me come to terms with not understanding people's motivations, I don't understand myself, we're just silly little moving things on a rock and everything's just a chain of chemical reactions, doesn't have to make sense. Where can I download Ichigo though ?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, and Murder

Minor: Abortion

bofstedal's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

jomicoop's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Gun violence

kajasversion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Genuinely one of the best books i’ve ever read. It reminds me of A Little Life in some aspects, but a watered down version with a different point to the story. I think it’s written so accessibly and geniously that i couldn’t put it down. The characters’ stories are so interwoven and complex, and they feel so real. The things that happen to them could happen to any real person, which is why i was sucked into the world created. Even though i know almost nothing about videogames i was still enjoying it and i thought the Pioneers chapter was genious, considering i’ve never come across a book with such a POV. 
The humanity in all the characters is precisely what makes the story so sad, since it doesn’t go or end how you would want it to - because unpredictable things happen all the time and no life is perfect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

arrisplexa's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Vomit, and Abortion

thebluntbibliophile's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I think this book shattered my heart in more ways, places and times than I knew possible.

None of the characters (besides Marx) were loveable to me, but that's actually part of the reason why this book is so good? There are no main characters who are over-powered and without flaws. All of them, even Marx my boy, have their quirks; their strengths and weaknesses. Each character feels so imperfectly human.

In a story that spans over decades, their relationships twist and turn accordingly. At no point are they stagnant, and the pacing of the novel shifts appropriately so as not to drag out needlessly. Above all, I love that there is no 'forgive and forget' denouement - Zevin seems to appreciate that a bridge takes a lot longer to build than to burn.

To be loved is to be changed.

Sometimes that change cannot be undone, like a piece of paper that has been written on, and scrunched up. You can flatten it out again, and try to scrub away the words, but it will never be wholly unmarked again. And that is alright.

This book says that it's okay to be changed, and to allow yourself to change. It speaks poignantly of maturity, emotionally and physically, and I don't think I could love a message more.

No, I don't agree with some of the characters' actions, and would probably take a different approach. But that's just it, we're all individual characters. Individual minds. Full of individual approaches and individual dreams and individual fears. The protagonists in Tomorrow can't rewind the clock like their in-game characters can, they can't cheat death. All they can do is try their best given their current hand. Just like us.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer

rachelyoung's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence