Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

破晓 by Stephenie Meyer

13 reviews

phouka's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Stalking, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

wiltinglog's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Blood, Infertility, Murder, and Death of parent

annabananadel's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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? No

3.5

“Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”

Perfect quote for the perfect book reading session I just did. Twilight again?!?!?!? The answer is yes. It’s been more than a decade since I last decided to read this book and I knew from memory that I’ve reread this book countless of times during my teenage years and loved it every time. This is why I added an additional tab for “cringe content” - for scenes and lines I sure loved during my teenage years but hate now that I’m an adult. infairness, there was only 5 tabs for that throughout the book so that means I haven’t cringed entirely on this book. 

I can see why I loved it back then. I didn’t rate this below 3 so that means something, I still like it. It’s a good fantasy story for young adult, that’s for sure. Bella and Edward was the it book couple during the early 2000s and I can remember why. If it wasn’t for the sparkle during the sun thing, I doubt they’d get hate as much as it did now. I actually enjoyed it even when cringing occasionally. 

Reason for rereading: I bought Midnight Sun last few months ago and I need to freshen up my memory on Twilight because the movie doesn’t do justice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Car accident

Moderate: Murder, Suicide attempt, and Death

Minor: Death of parent

lonely_tardigrade's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

1.0

I only reread this to go through and highlight all the signs of abuse. Almost every page had a highlight on it. No idea why this is still considered a romance novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Stalking, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Death, and Rape

u2u's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I don’t understand why Edward didn’t bite her in the end. Clearly she is willing and ready to give up legit everything so like… hurry up? 

I don’t get the hype behind Jacob, lads just a hinted at wolf who isn’t even a contender for Bella’s heart. 

<Also what happened to her school friends? They all just kinda die? Like they were non-existent in the ending there>

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, Death, Blood, Stalking, and Animal death

There is mentions of blood, nothing about the scar or anything but seeing as it is vampires it’s mentioned a tad

noceur's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

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

4.0

i am a fan of the movies so finally i decided to read the books. i know what most people think of the books, they say it's terrible so i had low expectations but i loved it. shocking i know but i really enjoyed reading this. now the book isn't perfect i know that but i don't really care i finshed it in one sitting and it was a fun time and i liked how different it was from the movie. also i totally chose to ignore bella being 17 cuz that's jusy creepy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Car accident

Moderate: Stalking, Gore, and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

grboph's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This is maybe one of the worst books I've ever read. I am legitimately unsure why my eleven-year-old self enjoyed them as much as she did. Probably for the reasons I gave it two and a half stars, which is pure entertainment value and being unintentionally hilarious at times. But seriously, I'm not sure how this book was even published. The writing is terrible, the characters are all incredibly annoying (all for completely different reasons), and Edward and Bella's relationship, which is held up as being romantic and perfect and star-crossed, is actually very toxic and abusive (one of their first ever conversations is just Edward gaslighting the hell out of Bella and it made me quite uncomfortable). This book (and the series) makes an excellent hate-read, and I'm definitely going to be finishing out the series at some point soon. The only people I think I'd seriously recommend this book to are eleven-year-old girls or someone who I really want to confuse. However, I'd recommend it to anybody else looking for something comically bad and cringey to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Car accident, Confinement, Violence, Medical content, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Death, and Abandonment

braelynm_22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

Kinda slow to start but really picked up speed in the end. Cute romance and unpredictable. Bella is super funny and sarcastic which brightens the mood. I feel like it was kinda one note though, it needed something else to happen. 

"Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Car accident, Medical content, and Sexual content

Minor: Violence, Animal death, and Death of parent

Includes kissing, flirting, killing animals, tracking people, and injuries

morenowagain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

Such a hard book to rate. We all know it's not a great piece of literature, and Meyer's racism and obsession with weird age gaps definitely depreciates the quality of the literature that is there. But it is so fun. I had a blast reading it. It's silly, very of-it's-time, funny at parts, and a very interesting take on vampires. The background characters are far more interesting than Bella and Edward. I read this for class but I am tempted to read the rest of the series again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Animal death

Minor: Death of parent, Stalking, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Terminal illness, Cultural appropriation, Death, and Murder

my3bb8's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

4.5

I found that this book was really good it’s even one of my favourite books but I found that the chapters were very long and it was kinda hard to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, Blood, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Colonisation, Violence, and Stalking