Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

42 reviews

im_just_vidu's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Here I am grieving for the life that Lydia could never lived up to. Here I am loss of words because of how heart wrenching this was.
The first line of the book is "Lydia is dead. They don't know this yet" & you would think it's such an obvious thing, so you wouldn't cry over this book. Bold of me to assume the same cuz I did not expect THAT at all. I thought this would be end up being a murder mystery, but instead it just pulled all the heart strings of mine & made me feel so heartbroken. Maybe being relatable to the characters & their situations made things way worse. At the end, I didn't get the ending I wanted. I didn't get the answers for the questions I had. Most of the things I expected didn't end up happening. But that was the beautiful thing about this. Because life is like that. Life doesn't gives you the perfect ending & the closure to everything. Most of the time we just end up with bunch of questions we don't even know what to do with. I love that. It makes this story feel so close to the heart. I didn't cry yet but my heart feels so heavy so I might end up crying after finish writing this. Who knows? However read the trigger warnings & be prepared with a tissue box beforehand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Xenophobia, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent

Novel

danajoy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

vaekay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Racism, Abandonment, Child death, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Rape, Outing, Murder, and Suicide

jhurdman's review

emotional

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent and Infidelity

svtephreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-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 unexpectedly many times

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Xenophobia, Child death, and Death of parent

sloan_emmi92's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

Wow. This book was one of the most heartbreaking stories I’ve ever read. The way everything was portrayed made me feel like I understood perfectly, and the issues discussed and represented were put into perspective. I loved this story, and it’s so so sad but makes you reflect on life. This is so lighthearted read- that’s for sure. It would’ve been a 4 star, but just wasn’t QUITE there but such a great story. (I come back to the review and change someday- I haven’t decided yet:))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Abandonment, and Child death

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Medical content, Death of parent, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

csmoke85's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, and Suicide

paigetatum_13's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

1.25

this book could've been better but there was just a lot of things that I disliked about this book which sucks because I was so interested in reading it //

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Drug use, and Death of parent

Moderate: Misogyny

bergha1998's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

This is a heavy book. The writing is exquisite, I love all the characters and their development throughout the book. If you come from a dysfunctional family, though, this one might hit you where it hurts. Especially for me the relationship between Nath and Lydia. 

Thriller/Mystery, Dysfunctional Family, Trauma

“Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Infidelity, Suicide, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Cursing, and Racism

viviundworte's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Sexism, Child death, Physical abuse, Bullying, Racial slurs, and Infidelity

Moderate: Vomit and Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Blood