Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

94 reviews

jollymama's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Rape, Abandonment, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual content and Pedophilia

kaylaannsreads's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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, Alcohol, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Moderate: Murder, Grief, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

espressoreader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

3.0

Interesting take on how Heaven works.  Definitely a secular view on heaven.  The story was interesting.

Author like the sound of Len, Lindsey, and Lynn, quite a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, Grief, Pedophilia, Torture, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, Murder, Alcohol, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Self harm and Stalking

greenrequiem's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Grief, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Rape, Sexual assault, and Xenophobia

jwill583's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

rustycups's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This is a wonderful book that dives into topics such as heaven and grief and its aftermath. We get to see Suise's family's grow up and come to terms with what happend in their own ways wether it may be bad or good. I found the description of heaven interesting and an intriguing display of what it could be. I did find the time jumps in the book a little weird and I did get confused at times with the dates. I also feel at the end of the book the bit between Ruth,Ray and Suise was unnecessary and did not add anything to the plot and weirded me out a bit. All togther solid 3 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Death, Grief, and Rape

Moderate: Animal cruelty

faythfarrar's review

slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Rape, Abandonment, Murder, Pedophilia, and Animal death

birtch's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Grief

goldenslug's review

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

eatwritereadrepeat's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

beautifully depressing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Child death, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Rape