Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Six Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by Tess Sharpe

50 reviews

lahziesmann's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

canread_willread's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

This book was a surprise.
Don’t let the cover and back cover fool you.
This book is deep, very emotional and hard to put down. It deals with grief, trauma, heartbreak and a tensed, profound love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

sbennett28's review

emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.75

Just a really sweet gay romance, but also looking at family relationships, grief and healing. I just loved this ugh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Mental illness

Difficult parent / child relationships

sapphic_alpaca's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Grief, Abandonment, and Cursing

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Ableism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

r_a's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Grief, and Mental illness

eureads's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Cancer

alisonchen's review against another edition

emotional sad

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

Perhaps I just don’t like this genre, but this book follows fanfic tropes beat-by-beat, which felt repetitive. The main problem is that I didn’t like the characters. Penny is insufferable and Tate is long-suffering; I honestly couldn’t tell why she liked Penny so much. I liked their friends, but side characters can’t make up for an annoying first-person POV. I skim-read through most of the family troubles and traumatic backstory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Grief, and Mental illness

zaesbookshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Sometimes YA hits so hard, so perfectly, that you can’t help but love it. This book had me laughing, crying, kicking my feet in excitement. Yes, it is a cute, sapphic romance, but is so much more than that.

The author does a wonderful job touching on all the hard topics: grief, trauma, ptsd, the hardships of medical needs when you’re not rich, the complications of parent-child relationships, the fear around knowing (but never fully knowing) how someone feels about you, the power of found family. 

It’s just — so good. It will make you feel all the feels - good and bad. But in such a way that has you always looking to hope. 

Definitely going to be in my top books of the year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

Minor: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

evelynyle_88's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

abookwormspov's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse