Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Exodus by Kate Stewart

30 reviews

laura_rheads_too_much's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

Minor: Vomit and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

I was unprepared for how this book was going to impact me. I went into the series blind. And as much as this one broke my heart it also restored it.

thefatpaperback's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is pain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, War, and Violence

Minor: Abortion and Child abuse

kinsilee's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

maddysbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

i’m actually surprised by how much i enjoyed this. while i did like the first book, i felt like there were a lot of problems and cecelia never stood up for herself, after being treated terribly, which was hard for me to enjoy. 
i started this book feeling the same way during the start of it. the relationship in this is extremely, extremely toxic, but we see cecelia begin to defend herself and not take everyone’s shit. i like that cecelia finally feels like a strong female character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death

alexandriasreads's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Let me just say that this series (so far) has wrecked me. While I feel so sad for Dom, I freaking love Sean and I just wish we had more Sean content 😭😭 the first time I’ve ever loved the blonde sunshine boy but goddamn do I love him. This would be a 5 star if I didn’t hate Tobias so much, I fell in love with Sean and Dom so quickly and easily, Tobias just felt very forced and I wish we would’ve gotten more from the boys. 
But overall, I really did enjoy this book. The ending was definitely rushed and seemed kind of thrown together,

I was definitely okay with them not being together. I loved that Cecelia finally gave herself permission to move on, and honestly I’m kinda bummed it didn’t stay that way. Probably would’ve gotten more stars if it did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

garrisonabbey's review

3.75

man why did i cry 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Sexual content

deesquared's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-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? Yes

4.0

I'm still not sure I like this series, it was pretty emotional and made me stressed. I did prefer this book to the first, still didn't really like Sean, he's protections. 

It seems like most of the problems could have been solved with *communication*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Murder, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

k8thegr8's review

challenging emotional sad fast-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

Oh my goodness. This book ripped me apart. I highly recommend it and also tissues, lots of tissues

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Grief

jillian_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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: Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abandonment and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug use

jasirepe's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence