Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland

9 reviews

elliv's review

emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Grief, Death, and Child death

Minor: Blood, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Bullying

gcrkl's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Bullying, and Car accident

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, and Vomit

trippyotter's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Mental illness

mollywill's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Child death

Moderate: Bullying

headachesince03's review

emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Moderate: Cancer, Alcohol, Acephobia/Arophobia, Bullying, Confinement, Medical content, Mental illness, Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Classism, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Death, and Abandonment

hilwithonel's review

challenging emotional 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? Yes

4.0

 A lovely exploration of loss, grief, and belief through the eye of a teenage girl who can talk to ghosts. Beautifully written with asexual and nonbinary rep.
Carry a tissue box around with you for this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Child death

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Car accident

patricktreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.25

Funeral Girl is a very dark and reflective work about anxiety, understanding mortality, and depression. It was a little darker than I realized but it really fit the way the story was being told. I really enjoyed Georgia and Milo’s connection, and appreciated their growth together. 

It makes me think of They Both Die at the End meets Dear Even Hansen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Medical trauma, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

read_with_loren's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

iindra's review

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Funeral Girl is the story of Georgia, a 16-year-old girl dealing with immense anxiety about death--which isn't helped by the fact that she lives in a funeral home and can speak to ghosts.
I read this exactly when I needed it. Like Georgia, I have a constant fear of dying, and her thoughts sometimes reflected my journal entries so much that I had to close the book. I loved how caring and strong she was as a character, and also that Ohland didn't shy away from the hurt her anxiety causes both herself and those close to her. Speaking of which, I loved both Amy and Milo as side characters, though I wish Georgia's friend group had been fleshed out a little more.
Huge thanks to Ohland for leaving content warnings at the beginning as well -- this was much heavier than I expected. I cried reading this, which hasn't happened in years, so Funeral Girl gets huge bonus points for that. Overall a very strong debut that tackles difficult themes but leaves a heartwarming and positive message for its readers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death