Reviews tagging 'Death'

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

143 reviews

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Grief, Child death, and Classism

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Xenophobia and Racism

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child death, Grief, and Sexism

Moderate: Pregnancy, War, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Racism and Xenophobia

luvkdr's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

isitcertain's review

inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: War

ginbat's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

1.5

Well written but did not withstand the test of time. Perfect for when it was written, but reading it in 2023 was not a fun experience. Preachy, somewhat sexist, very Christian. Perhaps it should have been split up into multiple children's books instead. But it wasn't. It was over 500 boring pages of in your face morals and how we should settle. I do think Alcott was a great writer, especially for the time period, but I just would not recommend this book to anyone born in the 21st century. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Sexism, and Death

cleotheo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.75

I think I should have liked to read this when I was a child. 
In the first part, the chapters are often contained little stories, for example decribing the events of one day. I liked the that the children where not perfect and their faults where discussed.
The second part does get a good bit preachy and every one should be married with children which i did not enjoy as much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Child death, Chronic illness, and Animal death

Moderate: War, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

tibbarasden's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

This was my first time reading Little Women. It took me 6 months! While reading it I really enjoyed the characters and the writing. However, there isn't much plot and what is there is very slow. So when I would put it down, I wasn't very motivated to pick it back up. It is still a four star read as I really did love the characters and was very emotionally invested by the end. I think if I reread it I will try to find an audio version.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Terminal illness

saliwali's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Child death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: War and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Medical content, and Misogyny

tbwhite23's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

hailstorm3812's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.5

I truly did not like this book. I like Jo and I like that it is about sisters but it just felt like it was constantly lecturing at me rather than telling a story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Sexism

Minor: Xenophobia, Slavery, War, and Child death