Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

24 reviews

kalira's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Murder, Grief, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Cursing, and Violence

faduma's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Domestic abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

rissaread's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Gore, and Death of parent

meaghancook's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I really really wanted to love this one. There were just too many characters for me to keep straight, but they weren’t fully fleshed out as individuals. Considering they’re supposed to be direct parallels to fairy tale characters, it took me far too long to figure out who they were. And that ending was so rushed and outta nowhere. I may give the second one a shot but probably not any time soon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Rape

enchantedelfie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Death, and Murder

kalihell_kalihell's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, and Chronic illness

Minor: Death of parent

sinaprst's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

I didn't have to high expectations going into this, but I really enjoyed this. Sure there were things that probably could've been handled better and the ending was kinda predictable, but overall I liked pretty much all of the characters and especially the four narrators.
I also now crush on all of the characters love interests, because I have a problem.

The book is written from four perspectives and all of the chapters are fairly short. I saw some people on here criticizing that, which I somewhat get, but still disagree with. I don't really know why but short chapters especially and also switching povs are things that I at least look for in a book, because long chapters scare me, but that's a me thing I guess, so everyone is different in that regard.

The whole vibe of the book gave pretty much dark academia which I loved and it also very much reminds me of pretty little liars (which I also love, even though it gets more and more unhinged from season to season), so this was right up my alley.

I have to say though the magic came kind of out of the blue for me and I hope it gets established more in the next book. Also I was kind if disappointed that there were mostly European fairytales in there, that even though, that they were darker then the Disney versions, felt kind of Disney-ish, I kind of hoped to have each of the girls have the faith of a fairytale from their country/culture, especially because the whole boarding has students from all over the world. 
Lastly, I also wished it was even darker and especially creepier, but maybe that will come in the next one, now that the girls know what's going on. 

Regarding the villain of this book, I really liked her, but then again I'm biased because I always have a thing for bad girls. You could kind of see it coming though, who was supposed to be the bad guy. But I'm very much intrigued to see, who will be the big bad guy now, after she died, because obviously there is still more to everything than we as the reader know right now.

Overall, this was far from perfect, but enjoyable nonetheless and I will definitely pick up the next book in this series, because I desperately need answers.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Racism, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Gore

saltair_andtherust_onyourdoor's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.5

I think the concept was super interesting but it could’ve definitely been executed in a better way. Like i wanted to know the stories of some other characters more. For example

Micalis story would’ve been so fun to read about even with her death it was so interesting

also i feel like some storylines weren’t finished. Hopefully the sequel makes up for its.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide and Physical abuse

Minor: Transphobia

halfbloodprincess_hogwarts's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I love that Grimrose Girls was a mystery suspense with a dash of humor. Those moments caught me off guard and I love it.  I always love prep school settings and love that this place is technically cursed, where its students will die based on a fairytale story. Hopefully the sequel have more magic incorporated. The only con I have is that its hard to differentiate the girls apart. No character really stood out and felt flat. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Suicide, Death, and Murder

dancingwithourhandstied's review against another edition

Just wasn’t paced right for me, got dull. Would love to finish at sometime though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Child death

Moderate: Chronic illness and Mental illness