Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

In 27 Days by Alison Gervais

11 reviews

ihugparrish's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

⊹ first read, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⊹ second read, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Car accident and Medical content

Minor: Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Bullying, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

mary_do_12's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

would it be insane of me to say i wish one of them would’ve died in the end? probably.

though i liked the story in general, especially how the relationship between archer and hadley developed, i found the setting and antagonists to be a litte flat. i wish we would’ve seen more of taylor (also, that‘s like the most basic name you could give the mc‘s best friend. seriously.) and gotten to know her more, as she was mentioned only a few times. considering she was hadley’s best friend, i would’ve expected her to play a bigger role, even though hadley was very caught up in the whole archer business. 
several of the characters felt flat and cliché and…well, exactly what you would expect from a wattpad story, which makes sense because this literally is one. i could see elements of that sometimes in the writing as well. still, i feel like other parts of the story partly made up for that. 
overall i enjoyed it, despite its clichés.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Death, and Bullying

designy808's review

challenging emotional sad fast-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? Yes

4.5

i was interested to see how death would be personified, and i think the author did a good job. hadley and archer are so cute and the ending omg. seriously this book is making me want to check on everyone i love. i highly recommend.

he finally opened his eyes. he found his penguin. they are penguins.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Grief and Suicide

mokiethe_dog34's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Car accident, and Suicide

megs_baer's review

challenging emotional hopeful sad fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Blood

tragicgloom's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Classism, Mental illness, Murder, and Bullying

bananapie123's review

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Medical content, Bullying, Blood, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Physical abuse

jayenidd's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-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

5.0

it’s beautiful. a book everyone should read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, and Death of parent

gabbygarza10's review

emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

I love this book, its a friendship-driven romance and very well written. It’s a super easy read, I usually read it in 1 day. It’s just a cool concept and although kinda dark, the themes are still prominent.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Grief

brewingdaisies's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-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

3.25

I liked the wattpad version better tbh..  my favorite part was cut out from the published version :')

also some small comments:

• the whole church thing was new and idk how to feel abt it
• the whole penguin monogamy people should learn from them bothered me like polygamy exists and is valid ?
• and her explaining to rosie the whole when a guy loves a girl thing felt really straight? LMAO like i am gay as hell so i would have preferred if hadley was like when two ppl love each other,, 
• i really read that and i was like man the straights are at it again
• am living for the grumpy x sunshine as always
• ALSO the
  hadley's injuries
  really bothered me for some reason like idk i felt like it was too specific/much? like i was uncomfortable reading it
• really liked the whole potluck scene was VERY happy happy 10/10 loved the whole them looking at archer laughing 
• I really liked the extended conversation with death as well i felt like it tied everything up very nicely
• I liked how this version was more "he was saved by the power of friendship" bc the wattpad version was more love-centered so i think this version was more about friendship and love was secondary and that was really nice

maybe i'm just biased but i read the wattpad version like four times because i loved it so much back then (like 2017 ish?) so i wanted to reread it  now and it was honestly a bit underwhelming ? i'm not sure if it's because my reading preferences and opinions changed or if it's the actual published version. 

will have to reread the wattpad version and come back! :')

overall i really hold this book close to my heart but the published version just didn't give what i thought it would give :')

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Physical abuse