Reviews tagging 'Child death'

You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

23 reviews

akateb71489's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

It starts off a bit slow, but once it progresses it’s really difficult to stop reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Child death, and Grief

ifwyshay's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

this book really covers what it’s like to have a sibling with a drug addiction. so incredibly sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Car accident, Child death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Addiction, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Body horror

cloud_animals's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Child death, and Suicide

rose_patricia's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Child death, Car accident, and Drug abuse

jennneely82's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Addiction, Death, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Sexual content, and Child death

Moderate: Cancer and Bullying

goldyyy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, and Chronic illness

unchargedbook's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual content and Cancer

_jasper_394's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

2.0

It was an okay book. This book was very much YA but with mature content which didnt make much sense. I wanted to read it for it's dark subjects and themes but the language and sentence development felt so mundane and boring like something of a young children's book. These two aspects didn't really fit since the darkness didn't go well with the lack of literary devices. Overall this book was okay but there wasn't much plot development and the writing wasn't that good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Bullying

Minor: Suicide and Cancer

wintermomof4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Child death

danaaliyalevinson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

So, I admittedly went into this one not realizing it's YA, which is not my genre. That said, considering this as a YA book, I think it's an important read about teenage addiction and its impact on families that many teenagers are going to feel seen in. 

I was also heartened by its brave ending that refused to give easy answers, and even further heartened by the author's note explaining her own addiction and sobriety journey, which is most certainly a big part of why, for me, as someone who also has a history of addiction and several years sober at this point, the narrative felt so honest.

Sometimes it did feel like that YA thing where an adult author is imagining what kids these days are like and it's not quite right. 

But overall, a good read and I think an important YA entry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Car accident, Drug abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment