Reviews tagging 'Death'

Paperweight by Meg Haston

28 reviews

jothebro's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

caitlinferris's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-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

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

cateemma's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

4.5

This book was so heartbreaking, but so powerful in its message. This story follows a young girl struggling with an eating disorder and suicidal thoughts. Stevie was struggling before the death of her brother, the only one who seemed to notice she was struggling, but after an accident that Stevie blames herself for, she feels entirely hopeless. She plans to commit suicide on the anniversary of Josh's death, but she is sent to an eating disorder treatment facility about a month before that date. 
This book was definitely difficult to read because it was very explicit in Stevie's thoughts about herself and life in general. If you are in the right headspace, I think this is a powerful book about grief and hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Car accident

pond_newt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

sra_rdmn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

_jasper_394's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I was looking for a dark book and this somewhat fulfilled my expectations but I heard it was alot more of a challenging read than it was. It was a okay book but sort of underwhelming because it didnt end how I expected. I enjoyed it but it could have been more developed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, and Car accident

Minor: Child abuse and Rape

marthaxwrites's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

adarowley_reads's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-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: Death, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol

malakramzy's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Car accident