Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane

23 reviews

laura_pc's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Loved this book. Almost a five star book except the drawn out ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

callaazz's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

lisasilv's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

I laughed and cried. This book really did give all of the feels - joy, hope, fear, love, sadness, grief and loss. One of my favorites for this year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Homophobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Hate crime, Alcoholism, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Terminal illness

faythd's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, and Homophobia

Moderate: Classism, Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content

tlholmes's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, Death, Animal death, Grief, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Religious bigotry

lilbroccoli's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a weird mix of comedy and homophobia. Parts were really funny and over the top! Other parts read like the speech you want to give everyone in your homophobic small town that will make them see the errors of their ways, which definitely is not how that works in real life.

Chrissy really struggled to accept her son at the beginning, making it difficult to be in her head. Neither mom felt like a real person with how suddenly their issues were resolved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Animal death, and Alcoholism

herreadinglife's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

cde10's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal death

kerrygetsliterary's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Drug use, Hate crime, Alcoholism, Excrement, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent

caribbeangirlreading's review

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.0

WARNING! This book is NOT a gay rom-com. Yes, there is a gay couple that is about to get married, but honestly, they are not the main characters. This book is about a widowed middle-aged woman who lives on a farm in rural Louisiana and her character growth. She has dreams and she has to learn over the course of the novel that these are HER dreams, not her son's dreams.

This novel is more along the category of women's fiction, novels that deal with serious topics, but too often in a superficial way. Don't get me wrong, I love a well written women's fiction novel, and this was not terrible. But it's also not a novel that will live in my heart and mind forever.

TW: There is a LOT of homophobia and an alcoholic parent played for laughs 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Alcoholism, and Animal death

Moderate: Death