Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Less Ordinary by Kris Ripper

1 review

menomica's review

Go to review page

emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

But we… we don’t feel totally alone anymore. We have each other. We have our family. And all of this would be… unsurvivable. Without that.”

Wow. This book broke me.

First and foremost, I want to take a moment to appreciate how this book honours grief and the process of it. A lot of stories paint grief as something that you just get over with a magical heartfelt moment. But this book talked about how Ads and Becs were both affected, how that broke them, and how they had to learn to come back together again. The book also talks about how processing grief if about learning to build yourself around it
the grief hadn’t really decreased. But somehow the ability to feel things other than grief had increased.
And that felt important.

There where also so many other amazing moments: Beccs being challenged on her view of motherhood and her need to subvert that, the family talking about how they had begun envisioning their life around the baby. Bernie’s line, there are some contexts where referring to a fetus as a baby is appropriate felt very validating.

I also really appreciated the theme of support and found family. All in all, I think this is a really great book of you can allow yourself to get in that head space
Expand filter menu Content Warnings
More...