Reviews tagging 'Death'

Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra by Ocean Vuong, Claudia Durastanti

725 reviews

eleos01's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Death, Bullying, Racism, Cancer, Excrement, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, War, Cannibalism, Animal death, Homophobia, and Xenophobia

kadbee's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Abortion, Excrement, Death, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Racism, Homophobia, Animal death, War, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, and Cancer

emrosch's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Hauntingly beautiful & raw with emotion.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cancer, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Grief, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Racism, Addiction, War, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Death, Abortion, and Mental illness

sxndaze's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and War

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Vomit

bookishlucy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense 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

4.25

This was a devastatingly beautiful book. Ocean Vuong's prose and writing style really suit the story and tug on your heartstrings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Drug use, Death, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, War, Racism, and Physical abuse

Minor: Bullying and Cancer

csmoke85's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• 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: Sexual assault, Death, Animal death, and Cursing

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness

kateped's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Physical abuse, Drug abuse, and Death

littleghostelli's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, War, Blood, Child abuse, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Pregnancy

chloe_601's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

I cried multiple times reading this book! The prose and wording is beautiful and captured so many emotions surrounding grief over family, friends, and lovers, along with growing up queer and Vietnamese in America. The ending wasn’t as satisfying as I would have hoped, but it fits with a theme of endings just happening, and us having to pick up the pieces and try to move on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, and War

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This was good i just wasnt an enamoured by it as i thought id be, the first half might have been a lower rating tbh but it pulled itself up, the writing was really nice but sometimes it felt like it was trying to hard to be nice

‘only the future revisits the past.’

‘"Everything good is somewhere else”’

‘To destroy a people, then, is to set them back in time.’

‘You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you'd know it's a flood.’

‘I remember it all because how can you forget anything about the day you first found yourself beautiful?’

‘We were exchanging truths, I realized, which is to say, we were cutting one another.’

‘Let me tie my shadow to your feet and call it friendship’

‘Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Child abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Car accident, Blood, Mental illness, Homophobia, War, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs