Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

29 reviews

anotheraudrey's review

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

i have loved jodi’s books since i was 14 years old and have cried so many tears reading these pages over 20 years. she remains a master of storytelling and engaging a sentimental and devout means of seeking what love means or looks like; or what we will do for love or in the face of love being threatened. 

dawn, wyatt, win and merit were all
so inspiring and real, i loved them all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Body shaming

dearkatie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.75

'Did you find the characters loveable?' - absolutely not. Not the book for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death

amandamz's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Dysphoria, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Fatphobia, Cancer, Body shaming, Bullying, Medical content, and Suicide

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Pregnancy, and Child death

iamaprettyflower's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

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

4.75

This book had so many unexpected twists that it had me screaming into a pillow (in a good way!). I really loved that it explained the history behind all of the Egypt references as I would have been completely lost otherwise. I really enjoyed it 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol, Cancer, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

cyndi1966's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

fionarose96's review

adventurous emotional informative medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Child death, and Death

sophiab27's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Cancer, and Medical content

Minor: Bullying

cwalden's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Death, Child death, and Cancer

Moderate: Body shaming

its_me_mar_p's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

The fatphobia in this book bothered me, though I think the intent behind its use in the story was probably not negative, it reflects a lot of negative views and I did not like that or the way it was 'resolved'. Otherwise I found this a really interesting book, where I learned a lot about Ancient Egyptian death rites, and the role of a death doula in contemporary USA. Some of the scenes with the main character's husband Brian annoyed me, they seemed to be written in an overly schmaltzy way and I'm not sure what the aim here was. I didn't like the way 'scientific' was set up as the opposite of emotonal. Brian seemed autistic coded to me - I'm autistic and have good emotional insight, I found this to be an unhelpful sterotype. That all sounds very negative but I did enjoy this book, I would have liked it to be a little faster paced, but it had a lot of interesting details that I learned and I liked that it discussed issues of how we make choices in life and how you can't really get to my age (nearly 40) without having at least one 'path not taken' that you wonder about - and how do you resolve this and go forward.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cancer, Fatphobia, and Death

sarahflanders's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Cancer, Child death, Alcohol, Cursing, Grief, Dementia, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Body shaming