Reviews

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

ceredonia's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Cancer, Child death, Animal death, Car accident, Death, and Drug abuse

phantomignis's review against another edition

4.0

I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the concept of this "elseworld" almost afterlife feeling and the talking dog! (Cause who doesn't love talking dogs?) I thought the backwards aging was the weirdest yet most interesting part of the book and the love story is so sweet <3. Currently reading another of her books because I loved this one so much!

helenfreitag's review

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• 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? No

5.0

jenn_chan's review

inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

meganshu527's review against another edition

5.0

Truly amazing book. I was just in LOVE with it. Couldn't put it down. And I used to hate reading, but this book got me back into loving books. You people have got to read it.

tomlinbeth's review

hopeful inspiring slow-paced

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

1.75

tillyp's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.5

justakid's review against another edition

2.0

i did have high hopes for this as tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow is one of my favourite books, however, it was not good. it was written as if zevin was trying to cram as many events and facts about elsewhere as possible in 270 pages and lots of it just did not make sense, especially liz and owen's romance. it was also impossible to sympathise with liz. i understand that she had just died and she was mourning her life but god i hated her.

another factor was the predictability of it. now i don't fancy myself a fortune teller by any means but i just knew that in the scene when the two corny main characters were arguing, they were going to kiss. and of course, owen's wife was absolutely fine with it, because writing with any real emotional maturity and complexity is not to be found in this book.

okay i feel a little mean now. just bear in mind that this was 2005 and zevin has improved drastically since.

bookswithbecs_'s review

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

raclmac's review

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0