Reviews tagging 'Death'

Il libro dei desideri by Sue Monk Kidd

38 reviews

hazelgirl21's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

acashton's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

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

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

ottercorg's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

Having grown up a very traditional, quite conservative Christian, I was hesitant to start reading this one, having been recommended it by a dear friend. It felt wrong, like some sort of blasphemy, as I still today profess to be a Christian. But I read it anyway, because I’ve turned away from a lot of what I was taught growing up. 

I’m so glad I pushed away the guilt in reading this. What an incredible story, what beautiful words. I finished it about on the second Sunday of Lent, which made the whole story even more pertinent and poignant. The writing is powerful and eloquent, without going over my head or becoming too difficult to understand. I will be reflecting on it for some time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Rape

bandysbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is basically the telling of Jesus’ life through the eyes of his wife. She explains her absence from the biblical stories and he’s written in a way that he’s just a normal man, not a deity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Miscarriage, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lokilledrome's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Classism

keeganrb's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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: Death, Miscarriage, and Sexism

Moderate: Misogyny and Rape

Minor: Domestic abuse and Suicide

raydgaf's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicide

chandle5's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Miscarriage and Slavery

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-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

If you liked Madeline Miller's Circe, I think you'll like this book. It has similar themes of pushing a woman to the center of a previously male-dominated story. I don't think it's *as* strong of a novel as Circe, but it hits on a lot of the same themes and is well-written and well-paced as a novel. 

I really liked the depiction of Jesus in this book. Like, a good dude all around and the kind of Jesus I wish we grew up learning about. I personally would like us to have more Jesus stuff centered like this. I feel like... I get being a woman sucked ass for most of all time but I think that like this was just a little heavy on it. Like, I feel there could have been more to have Ana find joy and community in working with other woman doing what is traditionally *Women's work* instead of having her be bad at it eternally. It felt that yes, she was being stifled as a woman who wanted to  write, but also it felt very demeaning to the work that all the other woman who aren't ~extraordinary~ do in the novel. Like, for a novel that's all about telling the unsung stories of women (which it does do in some regards), it sure doesn't like...care too deeply about the ones who actually cooked for and clothed the extraordinary ones. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

kyleethecatlady's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, and Pregnancy