Reviews tagging 'Death'

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

15 reviews

b_shelf's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark informative sad 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Grief

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Miscarriage, Misogyny

emcarey2's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful sad 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

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love and the plot twist was CRAZYYYYYY but also quite emotional/sad in moments. Sometimes slow moments but those moments in the book were also very informative and interesting!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse

lenasun's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Murder

heytayday's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide

mstevens3697's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment

Minor: Abortion

ynnejkroy's review against another edition

4.25

emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

just_jane's review against another edition

2.0

emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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UGH. Read this for a book club, knowing I’m not fond of Jodi Picoult, and got… exactly what I expected. I don’t mind a good plot twist, but hers always feel so manipulative. I was looking for it, I did figure it out shortly before it was revealed, and I was just annoyed. Without giving away spoilers I’ll just note that this one… wasn’t even original. It’s been done. I did love all the elephant bits. That was beautiful. The story wrapped around them? NSM.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Murder

laugcou's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infertility, Blood, Death of parent, Abandonment

lexithelion's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

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I loved this book. The changing perspectives really added to the intensity of the book and made the twist reveal really satisfying - my jaw DROPPED. I do believe that parts of Alice's POV were dragging out the length of the book unnecessarily. I understand that the research Jodi put into this book is unmatched, but every tiny factoid about elephants being dropped felt a bit empty at some points. However, this book was so much fun to read and the re-readability is super high. I will definitely be recommending this to others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Sexual content

Minor: Cancer, Miscarriage, Suicide, Terminal illness

himpersonal's review against another edition

3.0

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The flip is unexpected. I could make a great joke about it here, but it would automatically give it away then. I’ll be mature and stay quiet. Story dragged on a bit longer than needed, but it kept my attention, and it was good enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy