Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

30 reviews

maxinekelly's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Cancer and Racism

zombiezami's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is what The Fault in Our Stars wishes it was

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Child abuse, Mental illness, Outing, Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Cancer, Death, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexual harassment, Grief, Classism, Alcohol, and Gaslighting

Minor: Gun violence, Suicide, Colonisation, Addiction, Drug abuse, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, and Slavery

hamstringy's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

The prose is definitely very well written, but I didn’t love it. The audiobook in particular was really well done, though. I think listening to a Trinidadian accent was much better than just reading it would have been. I think I didn’t fully connect with it (definitely more ya than I could handle), and I think it definitely didn’t live up to the summary. 

I wish that they had spent more time on the magical realism and illness. I think that it just felt really misleading, especially as someone who picked up this book for those two reasons, that we just jump from Mabel not feeling well to her in the midst of off-screen cancer treatment. I can appreciate the ending for its themes of freedom on your own terms, but I do wish that they had further built up the magical realism so that it hadn’t felt so out of the blue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Cancer, Death, Religious bigotry, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy, Transphobia, Slavery, and Sexism

telliot's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Outing, Cancer, and Death

lunar_lapis's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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

5.0

Still remains the most beautiful, emotional, heartbreaking and empowering book I've ever read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Racism, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Sexual content

Minor: Drug use, Vomit, and Drug abuse

gabforshort's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Abandonment, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child abuse, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Death

allapaz's review against another edition

emotional funny 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? No

4.5

It took me a while to emotionally process this, but wow yeah I enjoyed this. So sweet, so spiritual, so real, so heartbreaking. I laughed, I cried, I learned a ton

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

meagan2020's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Child death and Death

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? No

5.0

Gosh I loved this. I didn't really know much going in, so one of the main plot points really took me by surprise. This book is so beautiful and it made me cry a lot. I'd definitely recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, Homophobia, Child death, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, Drug use, Confinement, Grief, Sexual content, Child abuse, Racism, and Transphobia

Minor: Slavery, Medical content, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Outing, Murder, and Mental illness

cheuksin's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

I read this book because I wanted to read more queer books by black authors. 
If you like magical realism, astrology and spirituality this might be the book for you. However I personally don’t like those things.

the blurb made me think it was going to be revealed that she was pregnant, the cancer surprised me. I’m glad Mabel didn’t make some miraculous recovery as a result of Audre’s ‘healer’ ability or stones or green juice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Homophobia and Death

Minor: Police brutality