Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney

14 reviews

bamboopanda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-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

4.75

I did not expect that.
Amazingly weird, but also breathtakingly sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Child death and Death

guessgreenleaf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Car accident

euphemiajo's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol and Death

kayelina's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Death, Pedophilia, and Car accident

Minor: Violence

beckycarter97's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment

This book particularly engages with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which the main character lives with and experiences throughout the book, including flashbacks

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Car accident, and Grief

Moderate: Death

Minor: Abandonment

lizzyc_16's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense 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

5.0

This. Book. Was. So. Fricking. Good.

I really started loving it around 60%, though the whole thing was fantastic.

The plot was so unique, the message so important, and the little romance subplot so. Fricking. Adorable. (More on that later).

The story was so insanely original, when I started to look for similar books I couldn't find anything that seemed anywhere near the same. (if anyone has recs that have the same ~vibes~ as The Valley and the Flood, they are more than welcome :D)

The depictions of PTSD, Intrusive thoughts, and grief were so well written. It's really hard to write things like that but Rebecca Mahoney did it fantastically. Additionally, in the end of the book there was a "resources" section with information on PTSD, and a list of s**c*de hotlines. More books should have things like this.

Ok. The Alex x Felix romance?? andlksf;dkdsaksflflfasnla;saksfsfhjkal it was lowkey one of the highlights of the book. The like lowkey hating eachother and like the denial and angst and alksfksfal;dsdgjalks. I was chopping cabbage while listening to this on Overdrive and I quite literally dropped the knife and almost chopped off my feet when they kissed. I could rant abt how much I love
them for hours

There is currently nothing I want more than this book to get the hype it deserves. (and a sequel, though thats unlikely 😔) people need to read this so I can't rant lmho.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Death, Grief, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma

Minor: Blood and Self harm

fungivibes's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident

mossthatcanread's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

this book is brilliant and helped me process some things I had gone/ am going through. I loved every page and every character. every character was well rounded and believable as People

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, Death, and Car accident

monilib's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief