Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

33 reviews

dlsmk's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Body horror, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infertility, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

kaylee_123's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, War, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

kiracrutcher's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and War

emily_p1's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, and War

Moderate: Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Infertility and Sexual violence

nefariousbee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Honestly this book has me really torn.
Because on one hand, I like the premise. I liked the messages at times even. I like the writing style, the brisk tempo, and the composition.
But damn, it made me so deeply annoyed and even angry at times. The obviously Christian tone I could ignore, even tho I find it very annoying when authors pretend to play the all religions card and then they obviously operate in the Christian mindset. The SA excuse was... it was. It sure was.
What really did it for me was the ending. The final person. The metaphor of washing your hands of your sins. It was rushed, it was obviously done just for the emotional effect. This part could have been longer, it could have been a proper dialogue, but no, we get a quick scene where you're supposed to feel sorry for the army man because he's actually the victim here! And the thing is, he really is! This was caused by the American imperialist tendencies and yet this is not brought up or mentioned or anything. Instead we get a little kid being the bigger person.
Look. I am all for reading outside your comfort zone and this was definitely it. I think I can say I enjoy even authors whose morals and opinions don't allign with my own. It always sparks good conversations and some good old thinking about your own values as a person, being confronted with someone else's.
This just wasn't it. I couldn't take much more than a couple of nice one liners from this because the prerequisites for his arguments are just. illogical. to me. already flawed. and given the overal tone of the book I just felt patronised anyway. it truly resembles a Sunday dinner with posh distant relatives in a way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Violence, Terminal illness, War, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Gore, Cancer, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Vomit, and Violence

dfram's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

I loved this book. This author’s writing is so moving. I liked the characters and the plot and how everything was connected. This is a great story that I intend to revisit some day.
p.s. Eddie and marguerite’s love was enchanting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Car accident, Death, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Grief, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Child death, War, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infertility, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Torture

szel_zsofi's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Car accident, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Addiction, Physical abuse, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Grief, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Infertility

jacobs's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Blood, Cancer, and Car accident

meeklovestoread's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

I walked into this book expecting it to be sad and you expect for me not to shed any tears right? Wrong! I was definitely tearing up especially towards the end. I just don't even know how to explain my thoughts towards this book. In the beginning it felt like something I'd read for school so I got a little nervous but I should learn to be patient because I just started the book at that point. I like how this author attempts to tackle the concept of heaven into his own interpretation. And the way he incorporates the people that main character has encountered is genius. There so many shocking moments in this book too. Ughhhhh I can't really express how this book made me feel into words but just know I thought it was great. I'm literally about to read the second one right now!

There is one thing that bugged me though

on the third person part where he is suppose to forgive his dad for his father's abuse kinda didn't sit right with me. Also the scene where his mother was sexually assaulted and the third person, Ruby was excusing Mickey's actions because he was drunk and sad cuz he got laid off of a job. Like what?! If I didn't like the previous parts of the book and wasn't so stubborn I would've put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Car accident, Child death, and Death

Minor: Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Murder

ambercchen's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

there are some definitive flaws (one of which being albom’s gross simplification of his woman characters) but this book will always have a really soft spot in my heart that may or may not be clouded by nostalgia

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail