Reviews tagging 'Death'

Grievers by adrienne maree brown

8 reviews

menagerie_of's review

dark emotional reflective 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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Grief

Moderate: Excrement and Racism

meat_muffin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Good god, amb blew me away with this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Drug use, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Classism, and Infidelity

brynalexa's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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? No

4.5

Realistic, yet magical. A sorrowful exploration of love, loss, duty, and need. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Classism, Genocide, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content, Sexual content, Car accident, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, and Gore

rileywilson's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Classism, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Body horror

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Fire is in the context of cremation, body shaming is more of internalized uncomfort aroudn gaining weight which is then immediately refuted in loving and celebratory ways, child death is present but only briefly. Moderate: Body horror related to loss of autonomy, people in limbo states between dying and living, Abandonment related to the loss of everyone around the protagonist through death and dealing with being along, Classism, Racism, and Medical Content/Themes are major themes of the book, but violence related to this is not graphically detailed. Graphic: Main character deals with being end of life throughout entire book, death is a central theme and the ways people die is described in various ways, the death of Dune's mother is the catalyst and is described also in detail, and Grief is a central focus of this book.

sillysally's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

embervleo's review

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense 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? No

4.75

this story was dark, bleak, intense, and yet weirdly hopeful in its realism and pragmatism. this is one of those books where i kept having to will myself to slow down so that i could savor the story and the gorgeous prose. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Chronic illness, Colonisation, Confinement, Classism, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Minor: Ableism, Vomit, Body horror, Cancer, Police brutality, Racism, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

mayaya's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I didn't think this was going to be my cup of tea and gave it a try anyway--turns out, not my cup of tea! I think this is amb's first published work of fiction and it shows--way more "telling" than "showing," though there is the occasional absolutely beautiful turn of phrase. While the concept and metaphor is interesting, it also feels pretty on the nose--if you're writing about a pandemic in the middle of a literal pandemic, I think you really need to be bringing something different and this didn't quite land for me. I also think amb wrote herself into a corner by picking an independent and antisocial protagonist--the vast majority of the book was spent in Dune's head, which made any action or forward movement that much more difficult.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

bookishcori's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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 and Death

Moderate: Racism