Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

1369 reviews

page_karla's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad slow-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

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

chloeantoinettereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book will alter how you look at life and the choices you make. Such an inspiring, thought provoking story. A must read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Drug abuse, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death

grace33's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent and Animal death

vbewitched's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

This book gave me an existential crisis and now I have to recommend it to all my friends and family.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death

jnmoody's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt, Drug use, Suicide, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

wyldereads's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

3.75

3.75 ⭐️ (rounded up) I appreciate midnight library for it’s inspiring plot.  It’s a great reminder to just live and continue with life’s potential. I think this is a good book to pick up when life is life-ing, you know? 

Beware, multiple trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

chels984's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Grief, and Addiction

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Animal cruelty, and Drug abuse

ryyzap's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

This book had a strange mix of being pretentious yet predictable, simple yet profound almost as if it were deep but only on the surface. I would say it was a nice easy read but it explores a lot of dark themes rather rashly and the message would likely be hidden behind all the triggers for those the message is intended for. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Animal death, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

pianokeys's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Grief, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship

jzpaul's review against another edition

4.5

I actually really liked this book and would highly recommend it. I enjoyed the unique concept and application of it, however I feel like the death could've been done in a different manner (accident, illness etc) instead of what is clearly suicide. Because of the use of suicide, it took me a large portion of the book to consider it a book about anything other than committing suicide when in reality it was more about taking advantage of your life and accepting the existence of what ifs while being happy with your choices
So many good quotes but my favorites/ones I found the deepest:
"I was thinking of doing a half marathon but then I remembered I hate running"
"Nora had a familiar sense of grief, only the sertraline stopped her crying"
"So what are you feeling?" "Like I still want to die, I have wanted to die for quite a while. I have carefully calculated that the pain of me living...is greater than the pain anyone else will feel if I were to die"
"Want...is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack then the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem"
"Sometimes regrets aren't based on facts at all, sometimes regrets are just a... Load of bullshit"

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Suicidal thoughts