Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Soul Lanterns by Shaw Kuzki

7 reviews

storiesatstarfall's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Minor: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

odditiex's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Grief, and Death

itsradita's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, War, and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

divine529's review

challenging emotional inspiring 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

What an absolutely incredible book. 

This follows a group of protagonists who are second generation a-bombers from Hiroshima, Japan and they're working on an art project with school called Hiroshima Then and Now and they learn about people in their life and how each of them were impacted by the event. 

As the summary suggests, this is not a light book, but it's really important and I think everyone should read it. It has so many incredible messages in it and some that are still very relevant to today given current events around the world. 

Definitely one everyone should read at some point or another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Chronic illness, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Medical content, and War

Minor: Misogyny, Suicide, and Animal death

bookbrig's review

emotional informative reflective sad 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? No

5.0

This is a wonderful story about friends and family, loss and grieving, and the legacy of war and violence. It's gorgeous and heart-wrenching, yet still manages to be hopeful. Plus it tumbles together stories of adults and teens with gentle threads of mystery and equal weight given to each set of stories. I loved the vivid and evocative writing, particularly the way each character feels like a completely real lived-in person. There's also a great audiobook, but maybe don't listen in the car while driving-I speak from experience because I cried my eyes out, like sobbing crying, while driving home from work very slowly. . 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, War, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer and Blood

Minor: Suicide

f18's review

dark emotional informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Child death, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Medical content, Animal death, Sexism, Murder, Alcohol, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

janial58's review

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief