Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Almond by Won-pyung Sohn

21 reviews

rosalind's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense 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: Violence, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Mental illness, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

lilmissoddity's review against another edition

2.0

This book is a gross misrepresentation of the condition Alexithymia and misrepresentation of conditions can be a harmful thing to people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Ableism, Grief, Bullying, Kidnapping, Violence, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

hareems's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-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

4.75

4.75/5

Only 0.25 docked because some loose ends weren't tied. I don't mind that, but I think it may have further enhanced the story to at least reach a reunion between the two friends, even if it was just wordless, just a smile seeing each other again. I think Gon seeing Yunjae smile would've itself been incredibly significant. It was significant for Yunjae to cry and laugh in front of his mom. But we knew Gon for longer and Gon had a bigger (narrated) impact on Yunjae, so he deserved to see Yunjae's change just as much as his mother did (in the context of the story).

I appreciated that the ending was happier than reality. Sometimes we need that. A book that is heavily dosed with reality but that still gives us a proper happy ending instead of just a small glimmer of hope at the end.

I'm hopeful Gon changes. He's been shown too soft to really turn out poorly. And Dora isn't going anywhere. She'll stay in touch because she wants to stay in touch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Bullying

Minor: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

chireadsandchill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Deadnaming, Grief, Violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

theliteraryteapot's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

What a quick read it was! Unusual for me.

I really liked it, it's quite an emotional heartbreaking story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Bullying, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse

alisylvi's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Bullying and Child death

lor_5's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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

4.75

This book has destroyed me 😭
I literally started feeling as if a rock was hitting my chest in chapter 71/72 and I was sobbing A LOT. 
I loved it tho. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Bullying, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Animal death, and Cursing

lilybear3's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was a good audiobook, if you choose to listen.  I thought the balance and dynamic between one character who has extreme emotions with one that feels nothing was interesting.  The ending was nice and wrapped any loose ends.  I loved the almond symbolism and candy (that specific one mentioned) metaphor throughout, it fit the story quite well.  I wanted to see more of Dora (sp? again, audiobook) and Yunjae's friendship.  Seeing some other reviews, I would've liked to hear the translator's notes because it sounds like it had an impact.  I loved the translation as it was simple, yet emotional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Murder, Suicide, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Child death and Child abuse

starlit_pathways's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, and Child death

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

so. beautiful. great heavens.
first of all, the motive behind this book is absolutely heartwarming and i am so in love with the characters. they were unique and seething with beauty and life. especially yunjae was deeply relatable for me, and i thought it was an absolute treat to explore his brain and how he perceives things. it was so nice to read about loss and feelings from an objective point of view.
i'm also a huge fan of short chapters, since they just keep me going, which this one undoubtedly did. the relationship dynamics were really nice as well, adventurous and new.
the only thing i didn't quite like was the love interest. her character is fine and has some depth, however yunjae falling for her so easily felt strangely out of character and i thought it ruined the idyll of his character a little bit. the love interest simply wasn't necessary in my opinion.
the ending totally made up for that though. it was soooo sad and satisfying. such a gracious book.

:) my fav quote:

so i don't know why people laugh or cry. joy, sorrow, love, fear—all these things are vague ideas to me. the words "emotion" and "empathy" are just meaningless letters in print.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Violence, Physical abuse, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Child abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Alcohol