Reviews tagging 'Grief'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

381 reviews

inkysplodge's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Drug use, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Racism, Sexual content, and Cursing

crieraylas's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Grief, Racism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Murder

Minor: Misogyny, Blood, Infidelity, and Rape

lizzylakes's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

This book made me cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, and Racism

Minor: Classism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

medini_l's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Addiction, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Animal death, Classism, and Death

violet_viper's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Racism

rene_reads02's review

challenging dark emotional lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Plot twist of the century. I really didn’t see it coming a hundred miles away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Child death, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Racism

stripy_gloves's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

1.0

Really short chapter 87 for only a  225 page book. It was badly written but had a good plot twist at the end 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Dysphoria, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

epeolatrist's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Child death

Moderate: Racism and Grief

missgrangerr's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

nagaakil's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Dementia, Racism, and Self harm