Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

15 reviews

cassielaj's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

This is simply the sweetest, most beautiful, rip your heart to shreds and stitch it back up three sizes bigger book that I’ve ever read. I laughed constantly. I held back tears a few times and then cried so hard I couldn’t see the words anymore. The way this book approaches and opens up grief, death, mental health, love, joy, life, and so much more spoke to me in such a special way. I wanted to wrap every character in the biggest hug and never let go. I don’t even know how best to say how perfect it was, but I can tell you already this is a top book of 2024. And probably of ever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Cancer, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Excrement and Homophobia

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.75

Thanks to Atria Books for the free copy of this book.

 - OMG, this book 😭😭❤️ I very NEARLY cried reading this book, which is high praise because books never make me cry.
- You wouldn’t think this book, which you know is going to end in a death, would be so hilarious, but it is. I loved the road trip shenanigans and the bickering and the joy and beauty found in the bleakest of times.
- Then, of course, this book is also filled with thorny questions of how to live your life and what are the most important things in that life. Just a treat, all around.
- I also loved how Logan’s ADHD and Rosemary’s anxiety are not problems to be fixed, but integral parts of who they are. (Not that I expected anything less from Cochrun!) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Grief, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Abandonment, Sexual content, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Addiction, and Alcohol

abitbetterbooks's review

adventurous emotional funny reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

This is my favourite book I’ve read so far this year. 

I loved Alison Cochrun’s debut The Charm Offensive, and I read it all pretty much in one sitting, but this book…. This book was different. It was special. I think it had so many more elements of things that I love in a way that it was written more for me than TCO could ever be: cross country road trips, sapphic love, friends to enemies to tentative allies to lovers, English teachers, girls with ADHD, a big dog, and of course, ABBA. An ode to grief and a treatise on love. 

Sure, it’s “a romcom about death” as Alison pitched it, but it’s hard to capture how much it is both a) a romcom, that has swoony romantic moments and laugh-out-loud funny jokes, and b) still very much entirely centred around death and loss. 

I cried, I laughed, and I laugh-cried. This book was so beautiful and real and heartbreaking and joyous. A eulogy that truly was a celebration of life and all of the beauty and the pain that comes with it. Delightfully and fully queer through generations. 

Although you always know what’s coming at the end, that’s not the point of the story— it’s the way that you get there that’s really important, with all the detours and roadblocks that come with. It’s about the ways in which we crack ourselves open and who we allow to see our brokenness on the way. 

I can’t wait for this book to come out so that the rest of the world can read it. 🩷💜🧡

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cursing, Excrement, Medical content, Cancer, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Addiction

Minor: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Outing

amberlfaris's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Abandonment, and Cancer

Moderate: Excrement, Medical content, Cursing, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Lesbophobia

uranaishi's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Outing, Car accident, Bullying, Abandonment, Cursing, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Racism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcoholism