Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

39 reviews

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Deadnaming, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Confinement

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Murder, and Vomit

Minor: Lesbophobia, War, Toxic friendship, and Ableism

theinfinitebookcase's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

I had high expectations for this book, and it was even better than I expected; I didn't expect it to be so dark and emotional. I was attached to this group of found friends, rooting for them each along the way and on the edge of my seat when things took a darker turn. I borrowed this one from the library but I may have to pick up a copy of my own because I feel like its one that I'll want to read more than once.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

ecster's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

Love love love this book! Picked it up in the library, didn't know anything about it and absolutely fell in love with all the characters, the world building is unreal and the art style is pure visual poetry. Don't give this one miss!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Vomit, Death of parent, and Confinement

sincetheflood's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

The edition I purchased is missing two panels from Chapter 2 Page 5, where

Jules says "this is so dumb", and Alma replies "what did you say?"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent

verysillygoose's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, and Transphobia

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Death of parent and War

lilacwhisker's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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? No

5.0

Read in 2 days. Absolutely incredible!!! The drawings were beautiful and the story was heart-wrenching. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Transphobia, Vomit, Bullying, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

thereaderfriend's review

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

I wanna rate it higher but I can't because the art and writing was confusing to me. It may just be my vision and the edition i got though :/ my vision is pretty bad. I couldn't understand much because I couldn't really understand the art work and the storyline going back and forth from timeliness was just confusing to me. It was okay. Will reread again when I get glasses. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Bullying

Moderate: Violence and Blood

Minor: Death of parent, Death, and Homophobia

elwirax's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

Rep- Lesbian MC, Non-binary Side Character, POC main characters, Lesbian Side Couple

"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."

I loved the use of colour to differentiate between past, present and different settings, the art style is so simple yet beautiful. The characters were interesting and I liked the found family element. 

If anything, I wish some aspects of the world building and characterisation were a bit more developed. I didn't feel as invested in the characters as I'd hoped and the ending wasn't entirely satisfying. However, the romance and relationships were sweet. 

Overall, a lovely wee feminist, queer, Sci-fi graphic novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Transphobia, and Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death of parent

bre_hoeppner's review

adventurous emotional tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

instalovewithbooks's review

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad 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

4.5

All I gotta say is that I loved it and if y'all trying to decide whether or not to read it? Read it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent and Blood