Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Me (Moth) by Amber McBride

36 reviews

tashtash93's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

thebookkeepers's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

That ending!! 

This is the 2nd book I’ve read by this author, and she’s officially a favorite. This YA novel in verse packs a huge emotional punch and deals with heavy themes of heartache including death, grief, survivors guilt, domestic abuse, and mental health. 

I loved the cultural elements on Navajo heritage & the hoodoo/root/ancestral work referenced as well. I was not expecting the ending to be what it was and that was brilliantly executed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Death, Grief, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Racism and Bullying

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

Knocked me for all the loops in the best possible ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Classism, Death, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Child death, and Child abuse

Minor: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Blood, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Slavery

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

5.0

A story in verse is one that is hard to love. Many times the connection between reader and character is dampened by what remains unsaid. Even though we don't actually know who Moth and Sani are, we know the core of them. Some poems didn't work for me independently, as I don't have the connection to culture or experience that the characters do, but they all worked together and kept me invested anyways. At its core this tale is about grief and growth.

Sometimes you are holding onto something so tightly that the only choice is to learn how to let go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse, Child death, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Minor: Racism and Violence

scrubsandbooks'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? Yes

5.0

Listened to this on a long car ride and pretty sure I cried out in grief after reading this. This was beautifully written and has made me realize that I don't read enough novels in verse because there's just an extra emotional quality to novels written in verse that packs a harder punch. Me (Moth) was a book on coping with loss, grief, and learning to move on. I loved reading the main characters' journey through this and the ending was as painful as a throat punch. Very effective, 10/10, no notes, Amber McBride, this was such an important read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Racism

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

Written by a hoodoo practitioner with notes at the end thanking her Navajo friend helping edit/being consulted for the Navajo character, the poetic novella follows Moth, a teenage African American girl,  and Sani a Navajo teenage boy as they try to deal through their interpersonal traumas and tragedies as well as generational traumas and tragedies they inherit and live with from the harm the United States has done to both their peoples respectively. The teenagers find comfort in each other and their respective traditions (moth’s grandfather being a hoodoo man and sani’s father being  medicine man) similarities and differences as they travel the south of both the Great Migration of African American to the Navajo Nation in their last summer to find some reconciliation with and for each other. 

More sad then scary but it is a haunting story, I loved reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Racism, Self harm, Drug use, Death of parent, Colonisation, Child death, Racial slurs, Grief, Child abuse, Slavery, Genocide, and Bullying

starla_anne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Car accident, Grief, and Death of parent

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Abandonment, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child abuse, Medical content, Bullying, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, and Drug use

rowdybee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

This was my first time reading a novel in verse and it will be hard to top. I read it in one sitting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

This is a book about grief and death and life and how those things entwine. Bring tissues.

passionatereader78's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

Moth and Sani set out on a summer road trip. Moth wants to know why Sani has to take pills not realizing that they are to treat his depression. Sani has taken Moth on this trip to reveal a secret and to say goodbye to her. This is a beautifully told story. I love the writing style. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Abandonment