Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

95 reviews

yeuniversse's review

emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, Alcohol, Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death

allyjshand's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent -that happened after I was gone.“

Having been on my TBR pile for a good while, I was eager to finally read The Lovely Bones. I haven’t seen the film so I went in completely blind and I was immediately struck by the narrative. Bring told from the omnipresent perspective of a deceased, it was completely unlike anything I’d ever read before. The quality of writing isn’t amazing, although good, and I can understand why this book is polarising. But, for me, I was drawn into the characters and their raw emotions. This book is heartbreaking, but I found it to reach a satisfying end.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, and Alcoholism

lilalovestoread's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Child death, Murder, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Rape, and Death

caitlove15's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

A gut wrenching novel constructed by Alice Sebold, depicting the life of a young girl cut short due to a heinous individual. I could almost picture myself along side Susie and her family, forced to reconcile with their feelings of grief, anger, sadness and denial. A heartbreaking tale of love and loss, and the lengths we go for family.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Stalking and Sexual assault

mandi4886's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Animal death, Blood, Sexual content, Gore, Mental illness, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, Murder, Rape, Child abuse, Death, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Torture, Bullying, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Minor: Lesbophobia, Dementia, and Adult/minor relationship

laurmich's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, and Rape

hylian_narwhal's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Rape

mollyhood's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment and Alcohol

hobbesmom's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, and Rape

sage237's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Medical content and Rape