Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

24 reviews

saucywench813's review

emotional inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death of parent and Infertility

Minor: Car accident and Cancer

gurnoor's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? No

3.75

It was a cute read and I loved the writing and the character personalities, But I didn’t like the implausible and infuriating ending, the Asian stereotype, dell could have been redeemed more in the book, and sometimes I loved how smart Willow is but other times it left unsure about her character because she acts like a robot.Overall I recommend reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

rishireads's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Death of parent

depressedswiftiereader's review against another edition

This book triggered me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident

atamano's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying and Body shaming

libraryfrog's review

2.25

I gave it an extra .25 because I enjoyed the writing style. However, it gets my traditional this book is incredibly insensitive and potentially harmful rating of 2 base stars. I started to realize it around when “Indian princess” was used with just zero acknowledgement of what that means and how harmful it is. And then it was like oh, yeah, there’s a lot of that happening. Body shaming, cultural appropriation and stereotyping, a weird approach to having what seems to obviously be an autistic character, etc. also D is creepy af. So yeah.. just so much old white lady trying to be relevant without doing the work stuff. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Ableism, and Cultural appropriation

stories's review against another edition

hopeful reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Miscarriage

sassyshark's review against another edition

reflective slow-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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Body shaming

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

niita's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a nice, easy read about a young girl, dealing with loss and inner turmoil.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

annaw0827's review

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

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

2.0

2 stars. Neurodivergent main character, found family, good representation, and it made me cry. Willow had a very unique voice that was captured well, but the character seemed so unrealistic. She has many traits of an autistic person, but it's never actually stated that she's autistic. And, of course, she's a savant, not just in one area, but in so many different ones e.g. epidemiology, languages, gardening, and more. That's not how autistic people are, and tbh I'm tired of autistic people only being represented when they're geniuses.

And on to the issue of Pattie. Her kids are living in a garage at the beginning, but she has enough money to buy the apartment complex at the end? And she and Jairo end up with little to no context for their relationship? And he just wins $20000 in such an unrealistic way.

It was alright but some issues with it that made it seem unrealistic in a way that was hard to ignore.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent