Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Looking for Alaska by John Green

19 reviews

mwesthaven's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Death of parent, Abandonment

maryp20's review against another edition

3.5

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was an interesting read; I went into it knowing practically nothing. I think this is a really reflective story of teenagers navigating high school, friendship, love, and grief. John Green does a great job communicating the impact a person has on other people no matter how big or small and the way he intertwined the story with learning and understanding different religions was genius. I only felt that the story was slow to read and at times the monologue felt repetitive.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

becbolles's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Death, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

kortniperkins's review against another edition

4.0

emotional mysterious sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Abandonment

sge_ab's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Sexism

niaaaao_o's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment

bearystarry's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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John Green has a great talent for writing a poignant ending; this one even made me cry. Unfortunately I found the rest of the book frustrating, as I did with Paper Towns. I do think this book is the more enjoyable for me of the two but they’re very similar in many ways and I will probably not be rereading either.

There’s something frustrating to me about both Margo and Alaska being incredibly tortured and traumatized teenage girls who are also then subjected to being objects of obsession to boring, privileged teenage boys who need an adventure. I know the Point is to highlight how girls are people and not manic pixie dream girl archetype Creatures but. The amount of trauma they seem to be required to hold onto feels… some kind of way to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Classism

mmtrue's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use

tiaroseshang's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment

pinksrobin's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was my favorite book growing up, I’ve read it about 3/5 times. It’s captivating! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol