Reviews tagging 'Death'

One Day by David Nicholls

104 reviews

tvsmylife's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-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

3.75

Saw the movie before I read the book so I was spoiled on some of the plot twists, but it was still emotional even knowing what was coming. So many books end with a happy ending so its always refreshing when the author takes a different approach to the story even if it's not necessarily the ending we WANT. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Sexual content

leiaamy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

ellvee3838's review

emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

Omgoshhhhh.   Not gonna lie it took a little bit to get into it but once I did omg it was so good.

But when Emma dies I actually cried so much like noooooooo they were finally happy

sad, funny sad. It was good I definitely cried but definitely recommend 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Alcohol

taulkstoomuch's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing sad tense slow-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

3.0

As is the nature with long books, there is so much to say about One Day. When you read about a character for so long, you end up having a sort of connection and longing for them. 

I started off not enjoying this book at all, Dexter was such an annoying and unlikable character, which was super odd considering that this is supposedly a romance book. Emma seems to have no personality outside of liking Dexter either (my biggest gripe with this book ugh!). But as the story continued, I started to hope for good things to happen to him, and her, and them. However, I do feel that if their characters were better developed, the book would have been more impactful for me. But goodness me, did the latter half of this book have me shocked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

avacole2005's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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? Yes

3.75

Written really well but so sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, and Alcohol

froggybooks's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

i see a lot of me in this. something about it isn’t a 5 star but i’m not sure what. going to stare at a wall and cry now though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Infertility, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

dearbhlanoonan's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility and Sexual content

porsche_elise's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Suicide attempt

maecaitlin's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

3.5

Mostly read this out of a need for a reliable holiday book. As I have seen the TV show prior to this, I already knew what to expect…. YEARNING.

Reading the dialogue was different to watching the adaptation. The banter between Dexter and Emma sometimes feels a bit too millennial for my taste. Nicholls’ writing occasionally falls into casual-2009-fatphobia sadly, which makes it feel ever more dated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Fatphobia

bemysea's review against another edition

funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Death