Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland

14 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

alexandramtrawick's review

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

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

bibrarian_'s review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Death and Grief

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

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

nessas_lair's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.5

 Content Warning: Anxiety, panic attacks, death of a classmate, descriptions of embalming, and grief.


I initially picked this book because I thought it was going to be a horror and a ghost story of a girl helping the dead move on. However, this was wayyyyyy darker than I expected and it had some pretty heavy content. However, the book discusses a lot of great topics like discovering your sexuality and learning healthy communication and what a healthy friendship looks like. There’s asexual and non-binary rep in this book which was great to see because you don’t get much of those reps in stories. I was really happy with how Georgia and Amy’s friendship grew throughout this book and they had some really important conversations about communication and being a good friend. Georgia also goes through a TON of growth in this book and it was nice to see her work through her fears and get the help she needed. Overall, this book was a bit slow-paced and a really heavy read. It wasn’t really my cup of tea since I was looking for something more spooky, but I am glad I read it because it was still a pretty good story that cover important topics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

joisaddler's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

Poor representation of racially, gender, and sexuality diverse identities

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood

undisciplinedbeing's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.75

Absolutely in love with this book! Moon was transiting my fifth house, with Saturn in it, and I feel like long-awaited discussion is grieving and how to deal with death. This book pointed in a direction that sometimes we were so overwhelmed by our roles in life, but not how we can assist with death. The living doesn't actually know how to move on with their life, and I'm glad that the complexity was expressed by Georgia.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, and Grief

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