Reviews tagging 'War'

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

126 reviews

dfram's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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: Complicated

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I loved this book. This author’s writing is so moving. I liked the characters and the plot and how everything was connected. This is a great story that I intend to revisit some day.
p.s. Eddie and marguerite’s love was enchanting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Torture, Death of parent

audreygstokes's review against another edition

2.5

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

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The Five People You Meet In Heaven is an interesting concept, although the messages are told in a very direct way, with very little nuance; this seems to be a common theme of Albom's books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, War

Moderate: Cancer

szel_zsofi's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Physical abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

jacobs's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Blood, Car accident

mrscorreia's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

bahnsar's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, War

Minor: Suicide attempt

bonguschingus's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Devoured this book. Even took it to the gym to read on the treadmill. Such a heartwarming book that helps put life into perspective. Not strongly religious either and I loved the concept of heaven and the whole book. Enjoyed our grumpy main characters' points of view. Overall an original concept full of subtle wisdom and the perfect start-of-year read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Sexual harassment

liviamello's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, War

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse

Minor: Infertility

jennergyy's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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10/10 Phew, what a touching book. Exactly what my soul needed. This will be one that I keep and come back to in times of hopelessness. My heart is smiling through my chest :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Infertility

meeklovestoread's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I walked into this book expecting it to be sad and you expect for me not to shed any tears right? Wrong! I was definitely tearing up especially towards the end. I just don't even know how to explain my thoughts towards this book. In the beginning it felt like something I'd read for school so I got a little nervous but I should learn to be patient because I just started the book at that point. I like how this author attempts to tackle the concept of heaven into his own interpretation. And the way he incorporates the people that main character has encountered is genius. There so many shocking moments in this book too. Ughhhhh I can't really express how this book made me feel into words but just know I thought it was great. I'm literally about to read the second one right now!

There is one thing that bugged me though

on the third person part where he is suppose to forgive his dad for his father's abuse kinda didn't sit right with me. Also the scene where his mother was sexually assaulted and the third person, Ruby was excusing Mickey's actions because he was drunk and sad cuz he got laid off of a job. Like what?! If I didn't like the previous parts of the book and wasn't so stubborn I would've put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual assault, Murder, Alcohol