Reviews tagging 'Death'

Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey

4 reviews

cartridgepink's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Body horror, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Trafficking, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

Recurrent explicit, detailed descriptions and themes of intrusive thoughts and depersonalisation. Multiple suicides form a core dramatic element of the book. Countless descriptions of viscera, bodily functions, gore etc.

mbmayo's review

challenging reflective 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

4.0

This book definitely isn't for everybody. Personally, I wished I were the type of reader to annotate because there were some real gems that I would have liked to think about and pick apart later. I found Lacey's prose beautiful and the stream of consciousness style writing helped me understand the emotional state of the character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Deportation, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deadnaming

waytoomanybooks's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

I read this back-to-back with Everything I Never Told You, and they're incredibly similar, and I have the same issues with both of them. They both ooze "I'm 14, and this is deep." Like yes, there are a lot of gold nuggets of truth and interesting imagery, but it's not really saying anything. The main characters in both novels do a lot of thinking, but that's it. No growth, no change, and no hint that they're even headed in the direction of growth or change. The book has beautiful prose, but it's 100 pages longer than it needs to be, and I should've dumped it instead of finishing it. In fairness though, no one made me power through, and I think the quality of writing is better than the quality of plot and character development.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Abandonment, Suicide, Blood, Child death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Confinement, Mental illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide attempt

sophieanne's review against another edition

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide