Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Grievers by adrienne maree brown

5 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

ronnica's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism and Excrement

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

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