Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Pige, kvinde, andet by Bernardine Evaristo

80 reviews

le3713's review against another edition

reflective medium-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

Graphic: Drug use, Racism, and Rape

Moderate: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Sexism, Transphobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

dre721's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Brb literally in tears

elianawolfson's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.75

Enjoyed the writing style and the themes- I understand the reception this book has received, but it just wasn’t really my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

amydixon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Excellently written with interesting characters and storylines

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

peachani's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Biphobia, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

janice_sumka's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, and Rape

Moderate: Death of parent

thevietvegan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious slow-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 was really disoriented by the writing style at first, but once I got to Dominiques chapter I was really invested. The characters range from being infuriatingly problematic to charming and challenging. Such a wide range of characters and I loved that you saw echoes of the different characters in the subsequent chapters.

The writing style is like spoken word, it is emphatic and confusing to follow in the beginning, but past the first few chapters it really flows and doesn’t disorient you anymore. The narrative style reminds me of Homegoing or Under the Rainbow, where you are taken through various characters through a timeline to piece together how all these characters connect. I really enjoyed it in the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

brittenypark's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-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

3.5

The book is a good read for appreciating different prospectives. I love the range of characters portrayed. 

However there are a few things that I disliked about the writing, the two main ones being the way the author writes young people gives all young people this characterisation of being over-sensitive and arrogant, the other is the structure for the writing with minimal punctuation and capitalisation which was a bit hard to follow if your distracted while reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Racism, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Fatphobia, and Death of parent

culown's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Transphobia and Xenophobia

marisa_thorne's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent