Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Drowning by T.J. Newman

31 reviews

unlawful_sea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Highly recommend this book to people who love a book that keeps them at the edge of your seat. I felt like I was there, with all the characters. Hoping for a miracle. It was definitely intense but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

Would I read it again, I don’t know. That’s why I scored it a 4/5. The multiple POV’s didn’t help as it took me a few chapter to get into the grove of it but I am so glad I read it.

Warning: there are several f words but they were not overtly done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death, Blood, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief

christinesreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer

aas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Grief, Cursing, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Confinement, Death, and Suicide

allena_inwonderland's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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

5.0

In true Newman style this book starts immediately with action. Honestly I expect nothing less from here on out.

Flight 1421 6 mins after take off experiences an engine fire. The plane can't turn around, so no going back for a safer option of landing.
That's right, this plane has a ditching in the aviation industry an emergency landing on the water is called a ditching.

Again I was left thinking what I would do if this was my own flight. 1. I hope this never happens - to anyone. 2. I'm already scared of Drowning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

nika_nix's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was perfect. For me. I understand some people might not like certain aspects of this book, but I am not one of those people. 

This was everything to me. I loved the plot, I loved the characters, I cried a lot, I cared so much and the technical jargon and all the physics made my little engineer heart happy. I love planes, I love deep sea horror, I love survival stories and I love real science and engineering - and this book delivered on all of those things. 

I could gush about this novel for 300 more sentences but I'll stop now. My favorite book of the year, no doubt, and if you don't like this bool for whatever reason, just don't tell me because I refuse to hear it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Cancer

ruthypoo2's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Such an enjoyable and taut thriller. I easily read this in one day because it engaged me right from the start and the urgency of the situation described in the story never let up. I found the events and actions of all the characters believable.

This is a very well written story and the audiobook narration by Steven Weber and Laura Benanti was top notch. Their ability to inhabit the unique personalities of the distinctive characters really brought the story to life, especially as there are many emotionally charged situations that required thoughtful delivery in order to avoid being overly dramatic. 

I highly recommend the book in any format and will be on the lookout for more from this author!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Death

Minor: Blood

r_o_s_e's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Excrement, Violence, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Cancer, and Cursing

ksuazo94's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicide, and Medical content

Minor: Terminal illness

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Cursing, Suicide, Blood, Confinement, Child death, Grief, Vomit, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Cancer

schnaucl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

I really liked it.  It was tense and well written.   I'd read more from this author (though perhaps not on a plane).  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Cancer