Reviews tagging 'Death'

All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue

28 reviews

thecraftybookworm's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Grief, Hate crime, Bullying, Death, Blood, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

const_elle_ations's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Hate crime

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Death, and Child death

erins_bookshelf_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

3.5

This was a good book to read in October even though this month isn’t Octobering the way it should be. 
It was fun and a little spooky (but not really) and I’m excited to get to the next one :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Hate crime, and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Blood and Death

capybooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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: Blood, Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Death, Deadnaming, Racism, Self harm, and Transphobia

Minor: Suicide attempt, Cursing, and Classism

circes_garden's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.5

The book is very engaging with a refreshing take on magic. It has a good exploration of it’s characters even if they aren’t always likable. A solid read but gave me secondhand embarrassment sometimes lol.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Bullying

Minor: Death

zoeebone's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Deadnaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Racism

cakeylu's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Bullying, Death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

laynemandros's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Violence, Racism, Biphobia, Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

emilyalice's review

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

yeah can’t lie this slaps. 

there were some little annoyances but they did NOT stop me loving this book, i shall be reading the next one asap (i’m very glad i picked up the signed edition before even reading book one)

witchy!! tarot!! funky!! friends!! lil spooky!! very fun very much love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Minor: Death

sorcha_rosa's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book. Beautifully, but simply written, the story captures so well what it's like to be a teenager and to have problems with friends and classmates. I loved the different friendships in this, so well done. The story was occult and funny and overall, just a really good time.
Some of the characters have to deal with homophobia/transphobia, but in my opinion (own voices review), it was handled super well, and didn't feel triggering to read at all, just validating.
I also loved the discussions of being non-binary in this book. They felt heartfelt and clumsy in an authentic adolescent way, that feels really real, in the way that you actually figure things out as a teenager.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Death, Outing, Self harm, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Suicide