Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

43 reviews

spinesinaline's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness

underwaterlauren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, and Drug use

agirlsnightbookbash's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Racism, and Cancer

Minor: Child death, Violence, and Murder

yvanngo's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment

sydapel's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-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

4.5

Woodson is a master of narrative voice, and having an audiobook that encapsulates that is a treasure. I loved how in particular the three generations of women shine through, how both their differences and their similarities are held with remarkable prose. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer

anniepatt's review against another edition

emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

Beautifully written, heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. The first character we’re introduced to was Melody, born the same year I was. I hadn’t realized how much that would make me invested in the story…the stories through time. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Child death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Homophobia, Cancer, Murder, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

jg34's review against another edition

sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

Beautifully written and a moving story, however it does have one of my least favorite themes which is a parent abandoning their child. I can never turn off my brain and just let myself enjoy when that is present in a book. For some reason I can feel sympathy for a lot of effed up characters but someone who abandons their kid fails to be humanized for me. It’s not even personal!! I was never abandoned!! But alas I will always be bitter towards a character that leaves their kid no matter how good of a reason they have (which iris did not have a good reason really but maybe better she left a child she didn’t love then stay and make everyone miserable??? Idk it’s not that serious there are fictional characters)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Child death

nicolaparty's review

emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Racism

sunflowerwork's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Minor: Sexual content, Violence, Physical abuse, Grief, Child death, Vomit, and Terminal illness

cheye13's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

This was an absolutely beautiful book. It reads closer to poetry or verse than prose. The non-chronology weaves in a way that makes the story much greater than its plot. The audiobook was beautifully read and I look forward to a reread very soon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Biphobia

Minor: Infidelity, Abandonment, and Classism