Reviews tagging 'Grief'

More Than This by Patrick Ness

26 reviews

cjfooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

zoejjj's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective tense slow-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

2.0

BOOO it felt like the longest book o have ever listened too! Good things first: I listened to this as an audiobook read by Nick Podehl and he was wonderful. Great Job. The little polish boy who’s name I cannot spell (tomage?) iconic. I love him, he was the highlight of this book. 

Bad stuff: PLEASE PATRICK NESS EDIT YOUR BOOKS. The pacing and mystery was actually really good until we meet Tomage (?) and Rajean (again audiobook I do not know how to spell these names) and then the book begins to drag on for chapters and chapters of meaningless interactions. It’s like Patrick couldn’t decide what kind of book he wanted to write and decided to include a scene (or multiple chapters!!) that followed one plot line that eventually went nowhere. If he had answered a single!! question maybe I could forgive him but the ending is stupid.  The premise is promising but he ends it stupidly. Go watch the matrix, it’s essentially the same thing.

I wanted to give up when I had 45 minutes left and could barely slog through the ending. That should’ve been the most on the edge of your seat part of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Abandonment, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Violence, Physical abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Child death

peggy_racham's review against another edition

4.75

"It was suddenly as if, for the briefest of moments, the burden had been lifted, like there was no gravity at all, like he had finally set down the heavy load he’d been carrying.. "
Hard to write a review of such a character oriented book. No surprise that I loved this book. Patrick Ness has a way of pulling you into the story every time. All the snipets of the past were so good even when it broke my heart. Love it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Outing, Sexual assault, Suicide, Kidnapping, Blood, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Death, and Medical content

flissjoy33's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

It was pretty dark - very similar to the Matrix. I thought it was going to be an analogy for the afterlife but it definitely wasn't. Read up on trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Suicide, Homophobia, Murder, Mental illness, Grief, Drug use, and Violence

goldyyy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Suicide attempt, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, Homophobia, Murder, Deportation, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Car accident, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

ingridmaria's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Seth dies in the US and then wakes up in a dystopian England. And the story is about that, but it's also about being who you are, choosing to live, choosing to love and the people we choose to be with. I always wish this had a sequel because I want to know what happens in the world and to the characters I grew to love, but I know enough to believe they'll be OK.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Suicide, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual content

matthewreece's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Outing, Self harm, Confinement, Grief, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

beetlemortis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Suicide, Physical abuse, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Outing, Physical abuse, and Kidnapping

Minor: Homophobia, Murder, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, and Fatphobia

ameliaflint's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

Liked this one. A great read. But a little long and odd. Good story, and a plausible one at that. I really loved the characters and rooted for them all throughout. But I wanted more answers about the Driver!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Gore and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing, Racism, Fatphobia, Grief, and Domestic abuse

katrinarose's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense 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

4.0

Such a unique and interesting book! I love the blend of sci fi, contemporary, and existentialism. There were a lot of points where we don’t know what is going on, but neither does Seth, so it really feels like we’re figuring everything out (or not) with him. The character development was great too. Although the ending was satisfying for me, I could see why people would want more, and I do wish there were a bit more answers for some things (but that was also kind of the point). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Outing, Child death, Death, Murder, Stalking, and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Medical content, and Medical trauma