Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud

19 reviews

radfordmanor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

phoevincent's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol

natalieabigail's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Homophobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Grief

sorcha_rosa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

5.0

This book was beautiful. The writing was lush and emotional. It is impossible to me that these characters are not real people. This story was wonderfully told.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, Homophobia, Hate crime, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Minor: Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Racism

abigailp's review against another edition

emotional slow-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

"As you get older you will come to value the one or two people you have in your life that care. Really care." 
This book is a lot slower paced than what I prefer, which attenuated my enjoyment of Love After Love. Part 3 delivered on a satisfying and haunting conclusion. I greatly enjoyed the use of Trinidad dialect. I felt like I stepped right onto the island itself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Violence, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical content, Hate crime, and Grief

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Blood

lolita's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

tina94's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia

hannahmarierobbins's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, and Violence

znvisser's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts