Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

5 reviews

ladycranstonkc's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Gore, Medical trauma, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Torture, Physical abuse, Animal death, Blood, Murder, Vomit, Grief, and Gun violence

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Suicide, Genocide, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Death, Gore, Grief, Child death, Confinement, Medical content, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Vomit

mermaidmommy19's review

4.75

If you liked the Hunger Games trilogy, you'll love this book. It's super good and it keeps you engaged from start to finish.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Medical content, Suicide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, and Murder

dayniw's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Torture, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Murder, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gore, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death, Child death, Body horror, and Blood

endorphinmaker's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Medical content, Blood, Suicide, Violence, Gun violence, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Suicide attempt