Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

266 reviews

lay_kone's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Grief, and Sexual harassment

claire_leibovitz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Vomit

urfavzarah's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Pregnancy

reflectiverambling_nalana's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

A story about discovery, grief, and the different forms of bonds with people, place, and culture. Utilizes the in-verse form to its strengths to paint vivid emotions for the eyes/ears in a way that touches to the hearts and souls of those experiencing things that are unimaginable to many of us.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, and Grief

karly_ackley's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Stalking, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual assault

rendezvousgirl'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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, and Death

disenchantedx23's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault

elisalasater's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Racism

Minor: Abandonment

carlyoc's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-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

Inspired by the true event of a passenger plane travelling between New York City and the Dominican Republic that crash landed in 2001, killing everyone on board.
This book is told in verse from two fictional point of view characters, a teenage girl in DR and one in New York who both lost a father on that flight. Although Camino and Yahaira have had very different upbringings in different countries, their grief brings them together and they soon realize they have even more in common. 
Not my usual genre and definitely emotional, but glad I read it. I had no idea about this second-most deadly plane crash in American history that occurred just a few months after 9/11. And that is part of Acevedo's reason for writing about it. The event rocked the worlds of the Dominican community but hardly made a dent in the mainstream news cycle after initial concerns that it was another terrorist attack were debunked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Stalking, Xenophobia, and Sexual assault

Features attempted sexual assault that is stopped in time and traumatic groping on public transit.

specklecommittee's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief