Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Looking for Alaska by John Green

62 reviews

reuben394's review against another edition

emotional 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: Cursing, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Misogyny, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

kieralikesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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: Child death, Car accident, and Grief

sparky_reads's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Sexual content, Ableism, Sexism, and Death of parent

pain

jillkaarlela's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

This was such a hyped up book, with people saying it changed their lives, and that just didn’t happen for me. It was introspective, with a real look at grief and morality within the scope of teenage life, however, there were so many things unanswered that it left me with more questions than answers. However, I think that is the point. To ask ourselves, “how do you get out of this labyrinth?” I wouldn’t say that this book was bad by any stretch of the imagination, it did make me think about important questions, but I just didn’t love it as much as I thought that I would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Suicide, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death

Minor: Cursing

Maybe 14-15+

susannederstein's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.0

really liked it, not as much as i did a few years back, pudge and his obsessive immature love with alaska can be a bit annoying and repetitive, he is quite ignorant all in all not a ton happens and i did not like REALLY want to read, but the descriptions of culver creek paint a really nice picture and made me emerge in the story, characters are flawed, all in all very realistic and thought provoking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, and Dysphoria

Minor: Sexual content, Infidelity, Bullying, and Cultural appropriation

duni's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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: Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Mental illness

johoeforbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Sexual content, and Mental illness

lexarobinson's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Green's debut novel, and hands down his best. The complex relationship between Miles and Alaska is explored in the perfect amount of detail, and then the plot twist comes out of seeming nowhere (aside from the chapter titles, which count down to the twist in a way that spoils it a little). However, the aftermath of such a twist is not entirely depressing (the assembly scene is one of the funniest scenes in all of fiction): the character growth is superbly written, with the diverse group of friends all growing throughout the course of the novel. Green makes the interesting choice to give the final word to Takumi, not Miles, but it is an effective one: it enables the ultimate focus to be settled in a way Miles' character could never manage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug use

aniwillow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Ableism, Bullying, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

bookedupchick's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

2.0

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” 📚 Miles aka Pudge starts decides to attend Culver Creek Boarding School where he meets an interesting cast of characters. One of them being Alaska Young — beautiful, clever, funny, messed up, intriguing girl….👱🏻‍♀️

This may be an unpopular opinion of a popular book, but I just did not like it. It was kinda boring and the characters were obnoxious. Though I will say that this book is meant for young adults and since I am not one, it may be that I can no longer relate to these characters. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Read this if you like ⤵️

🚬 Young Adult Fiction
🚬 Quirky Characters
🚬 Single POV
🚬 Philosophy 
🚬 High School / Private Boarding School 🏫 

⭐️⭐️/5
Looking For Alaska by John Green

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Sexual content, Grief, and Child death