Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Last Family in England by Matt Haig

7 reviews

becks444's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

laura119's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Animal death, Death, and Infidelity

Moderate: Murder, Vomit, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

breeisreading_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

What an odd little gem of a book. 

My mum got me this for Christmas, and although I know of Matt Haig mainly for The Midnight Library, I’d never heard of this novel, which is one of his early ones.

This was not what I expected - the title and front cover of my edition fooled me into thinking this would be an easy, happy read about a dog - don’t be fooled!! This broke my heart; deals with lots of serious events and trigger warnings, and a lot of adult and mature themes. 

The perspective being told through the dog’s (Prince the Labrador) point of view was genius and I loved the childlike perspective that gave us as we didn’t have all the information, and found things out as the book progressed in real time with Prince. He was truly a captivating character and this book really was beautiful with the way it handled grief, love, family, relationships and the love between a dog and their Family.

The end has completely ended me though and I will likely never recover.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit

readingwithkelsey's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

3.5

I absolutely was loving this book until the very end. Firstly, if you are an animal lover and are sensitive to animal deaths, I would not pick up this book. The story of Prince caring for and loving his family was so beautiful to read. The story is told from Prince's point of view, and I absolutely loved watching him try to save his family in the best way possible. He was devoted and loyal and it was wonderful to read. The pain that this family is going through broke my heart because their problems felt very real to me and Prince works so hard to fix things! While reading, I was interested to see how the novel would be resolved and the last 40 pages of the novel were ... really weird? To put it lightly? Based on the tone of the rest of the novel? It is a reimagining of Shakespeare's Henry plays so I guess I should have somehow seen it coming but still - it felt super off from the rest of the novel. I can still see people really enjoying this, but the ending was just not for me. Like I was expecting to cry and when I finished it, I was just baffled instead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

leah_is_dudish's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Animal death, Death, and Murder

unfiltered_fiction's review

dark emotional sad

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicide, Mental illness, and Infidelity

georgiesutton's review

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Animal death, and Death