Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

51 reviews

temi1008's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Vomit and Death of parent

flower_lover's review

emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Animal death, and Grief

Minor: Vomit

whosjessanyway's review against another edition

challenging hopeful sad fast-paced

3.75

A wonderful story about being human and a powerful critique to the hypocrisy of those who believe being good comes from being religious. Also, a hopeful reminder that we should help when we can.

Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been - which he would have to live with for the rest of his life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Vomit

adelal's review

emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

Extremely atmospheric, melancholic but hopeful at the same time. It was a perfect read for Christmas.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Minor: Vomit

plumdustsuns's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Miscarriage, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Bullying, Cancer, and Car accident

d0505's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Religious bigotry

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

letheii's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

picked this as a christmas read and now im invested in the topic of magdalene laundries

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Vomit

samanthaleereads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Vomit, Confinement, Classism, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy, Grief, Slavery, Child abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, and Sexism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-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 of parent, Child abuse, Confinement, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Vomit

ericj32's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

A tender, yet unflinching, account of cruelty that is easier to passively ignore than to confront.  The protagonist is himself vulnerable and busy, and has plenty of reasons to focus on other things but his mind won’t let him forget what he stumbled into and perhaps wishes he had not seen.  The prose is the main attraction here - it feels as though the author is only documenting what the characters choose to acknowledge which somehow creates a palpable sense of the things that they’re not saying out loud.  This brief little book can be easily read in one sitting, yet it somehow feels like it packs in all of the depth and nuance of a much longer novel.  The author’s humble prose conveys only what must be said.  It almost feels more like a parable, as it’s grounded in ancient, essential truths yet told in an accessible, modern form.  I was nervous about where it was going and how it would end (it seemed fairly predictable) and was thoroughly won over by the thrilling last couple of pages.  Looking forward to reading other works by this author as she seems to have a firm grasp on what is worth writing (and reading) about.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, and Confinement

Minor: Vomit, Excrement, and Suicidal thoughts