Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

100 reviews

hunkydory's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pedophilia and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Medical content, Stalking, and Alcohol

ninjasunknown's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

issygrace's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, and Grief

haileymundell's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Violence, Grief, and Murder

kweaver_pdx's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, and Stalking

phantomgecko's review

sad medium-paced

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

3.0

This book is about grief and how it affects a family. Full stop. It's tempting to treat it like a crime novel, but it just isn't.

I think it's effective with its subject matter. Five family members, five different ways to deal with grief.

Though frustrating to me, the narrative choice to let the killer get away with it was the right one. Like, he was found out but he was never caught, and that makes sense here.

In other news, the body-swapping love scene was dumb. I think the novel would have been legitimately better without this.

Confession: I read this book about 10 years ago and literally couldn't remember what happened at all, so I decided to reread it. That's not to say the novel is forgettable, but rather my brain holds book plots poorly.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Grief, and Murder

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Felt slow and like majority of the book was filler

and that the killer had a lousy death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, and Murder

nafennessy's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Grief, and Murder

kaleidoscope_heart's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction and Adult/minor relationship

isadorawonder's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Grief