Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

5 reviews

pumpkinmasterug's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

Not the best novel I’ve read, but definitely not the worst. It presents grief through a range of perspectives and is definitely dark and uncomfortable at several points. I enjoyed majority of the book, however

the possession scene spoiled the tone of it all for me, especially since the argument for Susie sleeping with her crush instead of tracking down her killer is her reclaiming what was taken from her during her murder, but after she hopes her father dies to be in heaven with her TWICE she let’s her family suffer in grief when she could’ve caught her killer or unveiled the location of her body and helped them. Of course that would’ve been very cliche so I understand why Seabold avoided this, but it just made Susie come across very selfish and quite unlikeable.

It’s a bit corny in some places and I don’t think the writing style will suit everyone, and some of the characters are so flat and predictable they read more like AI trying to blend in than actual human beings, but I honestly didn’t mind that too much in this case. Overall though, it’s a good read with a hopeful message and I did enjoy it for the most part.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Kidnapping, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Abandonment, and Cursing

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Mental illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Death of parent

leeshisreading's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.75

I wished to complain about how the ending doesn’t fulfil me.  But I can’t, because life isn’t fair- it isn’t perfect, and therefore I cannot sit here and complain for an unrealistic perspective. Susie Salmon is a cool, compassionate and genuinely kind character- her personality so intrinsically sewn into her narration that I struggle to come to terms with the fact that she is not real. And I believe Sebold had a similar experience in what must be the best, most heartfelt afterward I have ever read:

“Susie has turned out to be more powerful than I could ever be. I may have created Susie Salmon, but I hold no doubt that it is the act of letting her go that redeems me.”

Overall, it was beautiful- i didn’t like the relationship between Samuel and Lindsay to begin with, but I will blame that on the sisterly bond I felt with her- this underlying need to protect her, just like Susie. It only increases my love for the book more that it was able to make me feel such a way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, and Pedophilia

witchleaves's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.0

Disappointed by Harvey's end, he deserved worse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death, Rape, Stalking, Violence, Child death, Grief, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Body shaming, Abandonment, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Cursing

mallory10100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

god this was so sad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Medical content, Child death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Stalking

Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Pregnancy, and Self harm

wow 😭😭😭

midnightbelles's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

It took me a while to sit down and read this fully but when I finished I was glad I did. I enjoyed this despite boarder-line having an anxiety attack after every mention of Mr.Harvey. I think it’s a well written Book however and I would recommend reading it. Despite it being really sad and heartbreaking it was interesting to read about the Salmon family and to experience this loss with them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Grief, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Cursing, Kidnapping, and Torture