Reviews tagging 'Grief'

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

22 reviews

deelightfulreads's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

jillaay_h's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, and Classism

heenz's review

emotional funny reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual violence, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Pedophilia

internationalreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

To everyone saying that there’s too much cursing. It takes place on Staten Island. The cursing capital of the USA.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

Minor: Medical content, Death of parent, and Murder

stephanielee's review

emotional funny 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Death of parent

lsm's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This was really good. It offers a very real but unique telling of the aftermath of what happens to a family after a child goes missing. It’s told through multi pov, several years later when hope makes a surprise appearance. I can
recommend this one. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Medical content, and Pregnancy

tashtasher's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Deportation

mmccombs's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed this one! The multiple POVs really worked with each other and had engaging, unique voices. The story was a mystery, the gap of Ruthie sitting at the heart of the book, but it was also about sisterhood, motherhood, community, the immigrant experience, and girlhood. And that ending! My only complaint about this book was the audiobook experience, personally I found that the narration did not do the story justice and flattened each POV into a monotone string of words. But otherwise I thought this was a well crafted and enjoyable to read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

atamano's review

dark emotional sad fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Chronic illness and Vomit