Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Szukając Alaski by John Green

162 reviews

zoemorana's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Death and Blood

theallmightyme's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Car accident

maryannc's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Car accident, and Death of parent

noelaninadia's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

This book started off well! I found myself laughing at a lot of the characters jokes, and found the story interesting. But after the countdown that’s in the book, things went quite dark. (Which of course is not unusual for John Green.) I did not like the way the story dragged on at the end, and I found it very difficult to get through. 

I did like the diversity of the characters though and found them quite compelling. I also see how this makes a good story, but it didn’t captivate me at the end like I thought it would. I felt like I would never find out what happened to one of the main characters, and the mystery behind the character is the only thing that kept me reading. 

Anyways, I am only giving this book the amount of stars I did because I enjoyed the characters! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Grief

meeklovestoread's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

I just wasn't feeling the book at all. I found the main character annoying. And the way he was with Alask  felt like he didn't see her as a person and more like a fantasized version of what he wants to see her like. She felt like an attempt at a manic pixie dream girl for the main character. I also found Alaska pretty annoying and one dimensional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Car accident

verikamarkova's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Suicide and Alcohol

books_r_cool's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I was not expecting to love this book as much as I did. It’s about grief and love and being a teenager and I’m obsessed with it. Some of the quotes in here are just SO GOOD I loved it <33
Also I read The Fault in our Stars but I really love this one so I think it’s better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Grief, and Car accident

serendipity421's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Alcohol

swiftiesophie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

rory_john14's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Classism