Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

La Biblioteca de la Medianoche by Matt Haig

1796 reviews

stephkocheung's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The main character is suicidal, and most of the book can be hard to read, wrestling through her thoughts. But overall, it's an interesting and hopeful story, and the midnight library itself is a neat concept.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Alcohol

javigoodday's review against another edition

4.25

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I was a bit unsure, since the reviews are are do mixed, but this books is really good: it made me want to be alive too. In fact, I messaged someone immediatly after finishing it because I didn’t want to add it to my Book of Regrets.

Short and sweet, don’t read it thinking it’s the next literary masterpiece, just read it to enjoy it and you will.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

jasminrain's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I don't think I'm the target audience for this book. I don't generally have regrets and I prefer to live my life instead of pondering over what it could have been. But I still really enjoyed it. It was so hard for me to stop reading and I really wanted to learn what was happening to the main character and what choices she was going to make. Diving into the possible lives she could have lived was really interesting. I somewhat disliked the "I don't know who I am in this life" setting and I felt like she had too many great life opportunities for a regular working class woman, but the story itself was captivating and I really really enjoyed the pacing of the book and the length of the chapters. It was hard not wanting to read just a little bit more when the chapters were only few pages long!

Part of me wanted not to love it because it's so hyped and another part tells me that the story isn't good enough to be a five star read but here we go. I loved the reading experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent

bemsla's review against another edition

2.75

dark hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Death of parent

griffinthief's review against another edition

2.5

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Drug use, Self harm, Vomit, Stalking, Car accident, Alcohol

badmom's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Death of parent

toni_'s review against another edition

4.25

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

kitza2000's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders

sdebord's review against another edition

3.0

sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I went in completely blind to this read, and wasn’t prepared for the strong themes of depression and suicide, especially in the first 1/4 of the book. If you can get past the sadness or are in the mood for a downer, it’s an okay but forgettable read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Cancer