Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn

29 reviews

readingwithkt's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Cancer, Miscarriage, Animal death, Death, Grief, and Child death

lalalaluziie's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Grief, Death of parent, Child death, and Terminal illness

mads_jpg's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

I can tell this is one of those books I'll return to throughout my life. But not for the reasons I expected. I thought it would be the book's perspectives on romantic relationships that I'd need the most, and while they were definitely powerful, it was actually the book's focus on grief, the cost of love, that impacted me the most. I know I'll need this when a loved one passes, or a friendship ends, or even when my life is ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Infertility

Moderate: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child death, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death and Blood

athenlyrain's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

This is a really interesting, informative book about different perspectives on love. Lots of different types of love are explored: platonic friendship, romance, parental, and even love after death.

This book is a combination of the author's self-reflection and interviews with other people. I found it interesting to read about other people's perspectives on love through the interviews. I wish there was less self-reflection from the author, but that's just me being picky. Overall it's a great book and an important addition to literature about love!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Infertility, Miscarriage, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

thelifetimemuse's review

emotional reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage and Grief

catarinamdias's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Grief

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This melted my cynical cold unromantic heart 4❤️‍🩹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Car accident, Miscarriage, Death, Grief, and Infertility

lhodgson26's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

 This book was a lot more deep then I first imagined it would be with a lot of topics covered and personal stories shared of both Natasha herself and her interviewees. I thought it would remind me a lot of Dolly Aldertons on love life and frienship and even though it did from the anecdotal style and how there was an interview with Dolly herself in it felt very deep and serious. Especially towards the end when grief and miscarriage were key focus points. But it was really powerful and the stories were all incredibly moving and beautiful especially when she asked what the loss taught her about love. It was a deeply reflective book which I think will take me a while to process as it was so much more then just romantic love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

lucykateburns's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Humbling.

A big takeaway for me was: Being self-aware enough to recognise your flaws and vulnerabilities is a way of showing those around you that you love them. Loving and being loved requires vulnerability and faith in the unknown. Control is the enemy of love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage

samanthajore's review

4.0

a lot of this book was overshadowed by the authors grief over not having a child which is something that i couldn’t relate to but i still think this book is something that everyone should read in their 20’s or 30’s or even older. Understanding love is an important part of having it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Miscarriage