Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

339 reviews

kyriannaj's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Classism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Drug use, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Sexual violence

blairsatellite's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Abortion, Medical trauma, Vomit, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Cursing, Ableism, Mass/school shootings, Cancer, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Hate crime, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Chronic illness, Car accident, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Misogyny, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Classism, and Terminal illness

i11iane's review against another edition

• 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Minor: Blood, Sexual content, and Racism

aherrst's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, Death, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Blood, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, and Abortion

dramagirl2003's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

5.0

i am kind of speechless
sam and sadie are basically the dream team, and marx is such a good facilitator. the author's choice of time era was perfect, and she obviously wrote from somewhat of a personal experience

p11:

And yet, he knew himself and he knew he was the type of person that never called anyone, unless he was absolutely certain the advance would be welcomed. 

ha! me

p39: i bet

dov is her bf

p40: WHAT
p41: ha, she's right, she totally is like the solution player
p43: girlie this doesn't seem healthy, go get real friends
p66: huh? the MCs are born in '74? they're old
p82: they're not speaking again? seriously
p209: that is a twist! to be fair if this is the reason they stop speaking I can understand that
p265: purely based on the fact that one of the sections is called marriages,

i predict that marx and zoe will be one of them

p267: you what
p283: don't tell me

marx and sadie are the ones that get married

p331:

bet she's pregnant

p335:

are we sure marx is ok? like ARE WE DAMN SURE

p338: before I read any further let's have another prediction based this section title...if it's called the npc because

MARX DIES OR SMTH AND SADIE SPENDS HER WHOLE LIFE ON MAPLEWORLD INTERACTING WITH AN NPC THEY BASE ON MARX

I AM GOING TO SOB HYSTERICALLY
p340: I'M SCARED
p344: no! i'm gonna cry for poor charlotte and adam cause i bet they won't get to make their game now and they really needed this ☹️
p351: sam! that is an unnecessary insult bro
p356: NOT ANT
P360: OH THANK THE LORD
p361: OH HE FREAKING BETTER NOT!!

DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE THAT CHILD WITHOUT A FATHER!!

p363:

JUST HOLD ON MARX, COME ON!!!

p365: AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😭😭😭😭😭
@esthersanderson! GIRL! DID YOU BUY ME THIS BOOK JUST TO PUT ME THROUGH ALL THIS EMOTIONAL TRAUMA???
p368: how am i supposed to move on in this book knowing that

marx is dead??

p404: oh my goshhhh, it's the "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech
p446: ok this a slightly immature reason not to speak, but she's grieving so we'll forgive her

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicide, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Cancer

Minor: Abandonment, Cultural appropriation, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Car accident, Vomit, Abortion, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

curlykristenk's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book made me feel SO MANY FEELINGS. Some happy, some sad, some furious, some distraught. But that’s what makes a good book. The writing was incredible, thoughtful and thought provoking. Just amazingly creative and clever. 
Yes there were plenty of toxic elements to the many relationships in this but navigating those is also a part of life. They were authentically human and both Sam and Sadie made mistakes. I don’t like that she still meets up with dov in the end but just goes to show the long lasting effects that (TW) grooming and manipulation can have on a person. This overall was a realistic, messy, heart wrenching, heart warming story about human connection and love. What else is there? 
The NPC has my heart. 

This review was written and book was read prior to learning about xenophobic author.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gun violence, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Violence, Abortion, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Confinement, Miscarriage, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

Minor: Blood, Body horror, and Cancer

a_novi's review

emotional funny reflective 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

4.0

This book has some great relationship building between the characters that isn’t just the generic book plot you would expect. It is realistic. The guy doesn’t “get the girl” the friendships are not perfect. There’s pride there’s grudges there grief. It’s not a feel-good book but it’s relatable and interesting and emotionally challenging. A lesson from this book  can be interpreted as “life is shit and it doesn’t really get easier but we meet some people we love on the way. Loving them is not easy either but it is worth it all the same” 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Blood, Chronic illness, Car accident, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Murder, and Gun violence

purplatypus's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Death, Mental illness, Medical content, Car accident, Grief, Gun violence, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Homophobia

Moderate: Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Cancer, Vomit, Hate crime, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion and Cultural appropriation

codenamevixen's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

This book was reminiscent of One Day to me, though I am basing it off my experience with the movie and not the book, One Day. I enjoyed this book tremendously more. It examines how impactful and deep a relationship between friends can be and that meaningful relationships are not always the romantic ones we find in our lives. It balances references to the real world enough that it feels it could be the story of real people and their complicated lives and emotions. It had me pulled into the page, waiting to find what the breadcrumbs to emotional moments would lead to. It nearly brought me to tears. This is the only book or story I have thoroughly enjoyed that explores

friends who could be lovers, but never are, on the page.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Car accident, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Blood, Cancer, and Homophobia

Minor: Abortion and Sexual harassment

lololoretta's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Blood, Death, and Suicide