Reviews tagging 'Death'

Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

6 reviews

rachelsbookishlife's review against another edition

1.0

 ** spoiler alert ** This book took me 4 days to finish. I generally read a book in 1 to 2 days. I had no desire to continue picking this up, and usually i would DNF, but i made a promise to see it through. And that i did. So this 1 star comes scathing from my computer so i can rant to you all about how terrible Grace is. This book is everything but the kitchen sink, there is absolutely way too much going on. Grace is not redeemable, even with her tragedies. Grace is a miserable human being, as well as everyone around her. Her husband betrays her, her daughter is worst than an angsty teen. I don't think there was a good discussion on women's bodies as there was a constant focus on Grace's body and the discussion around the grooming from her daughter's teacher was also just poorly done. The author wanted to put so much stuff in that everything was only mildly touched on, instead of picking 1 or 2 big topics and really making sure they talked about the detriment of those topics. I did not like that she didn't want kids, but instead got pregnant and changed her mind. So you know just like everyone in society says. Not only that she then goes on to just not be a good mom. She slaps her daughter, she has weird thoughts about her body, she stops being a mom for 5 weeks and then just comes back and everything is supposed to be normal. Not to mention her current day timeline where she beats the crap out of a car because SHE HAS TO BRING HER DAUGHTER A CAKE! insert confused face meme here... But of course it's because she is Perimenopausal... because you know women and their hysteria and all.
The only thing i will give her is that she reported her daughter's teacher for being a POS.
The flow was clunky, the chapters confusing. It has 3 perspectives, 2 of them are past timelines - 1 is 4 months before and after and the other is 2002 and after, and it has a current day timeline. All 3 timelines are frantic and baffling, as they have flashbacks that come without warning. The current day timeline is all in the place of 1 day, which just adds to the chaos of this book. In the end, this book is nothing like Where'd You Go Bernadette, or Ove or Brit Marie or any other quirky character that isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Grace was insufferable and i will not change my mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Cursing, Death, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Grief, and Pregnancy

julia11_01's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

franklola's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

You will cry and cry and cry and cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Police brutality

Moderate: Abandonment and Infidelity

Minor: Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, and Bullying

staylorreads's review

challenging hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

Minor: Body shaming

fkshg8465's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

Rounding up to a four. The books starts out in a way I’m thinking or going to be cute. It’s anything but. It’s arduous, and I was annoyed for a big part of it because it seemed like everything was being dragged out too slowly between the three timelines. But when evicting was finally revealed, I realized it needed to take ask this time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Car accident, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Mental illness

raincityreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Blood, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Adult/minor relationship