Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery

12 reviews

annelihghh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexism, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Medical content

eowyn_zoe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Suicide

kasialipa's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Animal death

erinwolf1997's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Grief and Death

Minor: Animal cruelty and Suicide

hannahstxrm's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death and Pregnancy

lunep's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful slow-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Child death, Death, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Pregnancy

msoul13's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, and Grief

sanne_vds's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I really enjoyed this book in the Anne of Green Gables series. All the side characters and story lines are well developed and contrary to the previous book (Anne of Windy Poplars) I actually knew who was who. I hope to see more of Leslie in the coming books although I'm not sure considering we haven't really heard anything about other main characters from previous books (besides her family of course). 
I personally do feel like Anne is losing parts of her personality but that may be part of growing up and having children and losing people. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

sdemo08's review

lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I was disappointed with the wedding. After 4 other books leading up...it seemed short and wirhout too much detail or substance. I wasn't too impressed with the plot of this one... it definitely seems a different direction on overall storytelling.

I took a peek at the remaining books and they seem to focus on their children. I'm not too excited about that but I suppose it's the natural order of things given how the story has progressed so far. I expect I'll loop them into my reading rotation here in there to have them read.

[Anne's band of pearls on "red" crocheted blanket]

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Content Warnings

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Grief, Child death, Death, Medical content, and Pregnancy

genny's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing 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

4.0

This book is supposedly centered on Anne and Gilbert's married life, but we barely get to see them navigate this new chapter in their relationship. The few interactions between them contained little banter, and so Gilbert just felt like a generic husband character. Anne, too, feels like she lost a touch of what made her unique and engaging as a protagonist. She's become very dedicated to being a proper wife - which isn't a bad thing, but it didn't feel right to me that she barely cared about anything else, even her writing. I do understand that people's priorities change as they grow up...maybe it was only jarring because we spend less and less time being privy to Anne's thoughts. 

Fortunately, I liked the new additions to Anne's ever-growing circle, and they offered plenty of heart and humor (Miss Cornelia cracked me up). There's a surprisingly solid narrative arc in comparison to the previous books, which were more like collections of Anne's random adventures. Darker, more somber themes are explored, which makes sense at this point. I'm unsure about my rating, because I really did enjoy this one, I just missed Anne!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Child death, and Death