Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Looking for Alaska by John Green

61 reviews

lindsayerin's review

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

cornustella's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I HATE the way Alaska's written, hate hate hate. Anyway, it kind of reminded me to The Secret History but like 10x worse. Don't really know what to think about it. Takumi is cool 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I didn't really enjoy most of this book. I found the characters annoying cause they all take themselves way too seriously. Maybe I'm angry cause they remind me of myself and how mysterious I wanted to be at their ages, and if so I guess the writing is genius for evoking that kind of feeling in me, but it really hit a nerve. The punchlines Alaska delivered at the end of some chapters really pissed me off cause this seems like the exact kind of character kids with god complexes (me in middle school) would attach to, and I think the world has enough smartasses already, we dont need more. Maybe I'm being overly critical, I don't know, I think this book might grow on me if I read it again after a while. The last third of it was a lot more interesting, and I think that might have been affected by the fact that I was reading it after learning about a death in my family, and had to listen to all my family members express some of the thoughts the characters had about Alaska's death. Maybe me being in a more sensitive state made me connect to the death of a young girl more, even if I didn't really care about her as a person. I did feel very bad for her though. It seems to me like Alaska had BPD, I'm not sure if it was John Green's vision to make her like that, if it was then she was super underdeveloped, but if it wasn't then that's just a funny coincidence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Grief, and Infidelity

Moderate: Cursing

ruby_gordon's review

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

lilasky's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

trycerabel's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Drug use

siennakt30's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Suicide, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child death, and Grief

milliemoo207's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

Loved this book so much, the description and how Alaska seemed real to me. Pudge is kinda annoying and sees Alaska and Lara how they hate women to be percieced and hes also a bit selfish but overall a good character. Love how the ending was open to interpretation of whether Alaska committed suicide or if it was an accident and ome of my all time favourite parts was when the colonel and pudge went to where the crash was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide

Minor: Vomit

cozybones's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Drug use

reuben394's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Misogyny, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm