Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

178 reviews

sapphotoni's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Cancer

shayh's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Grief

shannahtan's review against another edition

hopeful 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

5.0

A beautiful young adult novel that I’d describe as melancholy. I think about how I was in high school and college and how lost you already feel during that age. Then how hard it is to experience such grief while everything in your life is already changing. I think Nina LaCour does a great job of capturing all of those feelings of pushing people away, drawing them in, and just feeling everything so strongly. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

ruchaa's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

so good and heart wrenching. absolutely obsessed and i will be thinking about this for the foreseeable future!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Death of parent

bek_p87's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.5

There's such a gentle quietness to this novel; it draws you in. Little happens - and yet so much happens - and the simple and beautiful way the story of Marin and her grief is told is both heartbreaking and uplifting. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Death

befrazzledenby's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

This is the kind of book I would have devoured in high school. I felt very seen and held especially in the final chapters. Left me with a weird feeling and was at times pretty slow paced, but other than that, a pretty gentle YA read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Grief, Medical content, Blood, and Death of parent

kyrstin_p1989's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.5

A book about grief and the ways that we learn that the people we loved aren’t always who we thought they were. A tough read that was slow to start but ended beautifully. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, and Terminal illness

ashcxl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Cancer

moegan1010's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

emminkirjakasa's review

emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

I read a review that is 100% what i felt like with this book:
"In some ways you spend the entire length of the book, hoping but not sure what you’re hoping for. Whatever it is, you only finish with half of what you hoped for"

Not much else to add. Beautiful story about grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content