Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Les Fantômes de LuLing by Amy Tan

7 reviews

valentinaa_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Suicide, Grief, War, Sexual content, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, and Pedophilia

olivia_russell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, War, Bullying, and Suicide

bdilley28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

Real rating is 3.5 if goodreads would allow for it. 

Honestly I thought I would like this book much more than I did. It's very me: a book that explores mother-daughter relationships and discusses family trauma and grief. I didn't dislike the book, but I found it a little confusing. Unless it is written well, I have a hard time following a book that doesn't have a linear timeline, and with the amount of characters in this book, it was not necessarily easy to follow. I liked the ending and thought it closed out the book really well. 

Overall not bad but not my favorite book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Rape, Abandonment, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Drug use, War, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Dementia, and Grief

nutmegandpumpkin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful, sad, hopeful. 

I underlined so many lines and though I’ve never cried reading a book, this one has come closest.

I felt a bit intimidated when picking this up because it’s not my usual genre but I’m so glad I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Child death, and Rape

andrewhatesham's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Murder, and Medical content

amandabcook's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death of parent, Dementia, and Child abuse

Trigger/content warnings: child sexual abuse (adult "tickling"/touching of privates after being told to stop), suicidal ideation, attempted suicide, suicide of mother, dementia, dementia of parent, mistreatment of child, giving child up to orphanage, reveal of unknown parentage

walskishere's review against another edition

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

2.5

I'm fully aware this probably wasn't marketed toward me, but I still found this ultimately very slow and boring. There were a few areas of peaked plot story, but the valleys were SO low and long that it almost wasn't worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Domestic abuse