Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

76 reviews

ate_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Grief, Infidelity, Racism, Suicide, Abandonment, Blood, Death of parent, and Violence

leahrosiee's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit, Suicide, and Pregnancy

lilawsahar's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book highlighted what it's like for a family to grieve a loved one. How everyones secrets slowly came undone and pulled them tighter together in the end. Beautifully told. All of these characters had so much depth to them; I loved how you understood all of their pain and why they were who they were. I love that every relationship was explained and navigated. I had no lingering questions about characters. 

Just like in "Little Fires Everywhere", this author is great at knitting topics of race, gender expectations, and sexuality into one book. Highly recommend. This should be a book that is mandatory for schools.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Racism, and Suicide

iris_lpb's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

4.0

This book f*cked me up, but in a good way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Racism, Grief, and Bullying

Moderate: Suicide

criticalbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Grief

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Racism

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Death, Grief, and Suicide

Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Pregnancy

maddyreads89's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Child death

morganperks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child death, Death, Suicide, Racial slurs, Grief, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Pregnancy

winter_b's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Pregnancy, Vomit, Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Misogyny

Moderate: Outing, Suicide, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Bullying, Alcohol, and Abandonment

jojo_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Racism

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical content, Racial slurs, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Violence, Pregnancy, and Vomit