Reviews tagging 'Death'

Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne

5 reviews

sophie42's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Eating disorder

jennboyack_scott's review

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Drug use

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Sexual content

carlytenille's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Self harm, and Sexual content

halfelfschollar's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

When this book was recommended to me and I read the blurb I was expecting a story about a queer girl being in love with her best friend. And that's is what the story is about. It's about learning to move on and have your own life while maintaining a friendship with someone who you love but will never love you the same way. It's about seeing opportunities to change that love into something less romantic. But this book is also about the pain of watching someone you care for deeply as they loose themselves. The pain of watching them get worse and knowing you've done all you can for them.

The framing device of the water is fitting. Being a book about two Australian's water makes sense, we spend our summers at beaches and during droughts water becomes a valuable thing. It's hard to think of something else that would work for the symbolism of the book. Because when water is plentiful it represents all the things it gives life too. But by the end of the book the water has dried up and we are left wondering if it'll ever fill the rivers again. 

The end wasn't something I saw coming, but it's something that I was glad to read despite the sadness of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

readwithchar's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Self harm, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Domestic abuse and Gaslighting