Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

29 reviews

cartermon4's review

emotional inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Death of parent, Death, Animal death, Grief, and Terminal illness

Minor: Pregnancy

arturo_luzen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Grief, Terminal illness, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, and Pregnancy

ladysanctuary's review

emotional reflective fast-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? Yes

3.5

The fourth in the series, this one adds little to the existing formula that wasn't achieved by the previous books. In general it was touching but failed to develop any of the recurring characters meaningfully and only lightly explored the time travellers. A lot of death regrets in this one, but it still tended towards the lightly heartstring pulling feeling of earlier books.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Animal death, and Death of parent

ebrosnan's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

made me cry

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death and Death

fronk10's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

A sweet little book and a lovely way to end the year. Each installation in this series is like a warm hug after a good cry - sad but cathartic, and means you can move on better for it. I enjoyed the occasional shift to first person as it made the stories seem less repetitive. A good variety of characters, and the second story was my favourite!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

ryliereadss's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

I really enjoyed this new book in the series!! I loved the change in perspective in the chapters, going from third person to first person. That dog story made me cry of course. I liked that they used the alarm stirrer more in these stories. I can’t wait for the next one!!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death

guardianofthebookshelf's review against another edition

slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Animal death and Death of parent

thislibrarylife's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

 This entire series is fantastic. I read all four books in about 21 days. Recommend for anyone who likes magical realism, or books that tug at your heart strings just a little, but aren't Nicholas Sparks / Kristin Hannah level. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

catsandbeets's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

shadymist's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Death, Infertility, Body shaming, Car accident, Medical trauma, Bullying, and Pregnancy