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Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

13 reviews

sytaylor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sadiebroussard's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

I don’t particularly like this book but at the same time, I think it is well written and beautiful at times. I don’t usually give .5 in my reviews - 3 for books I don’t like and 4 for books I do. This one gets a 3.5. 

This novel just isn’t for me.  I’m not a mother and will never be in this lifetime. The story, at its core, is about motherhood. I understand the many themes of motherhood in the book and can sympathize with Grace. However, I can’t relate to her or empathize with her pain. 

This novel is dark. Grace is in a lot of pain for most of the novel. I feel like I was baited and then switched. This is not a funny, light-hearted read like it is advertised to be. The story deals with some very heavy and serious topics. I didn’t laugh reading this book, I cried. It was heart-wrenching and I found it to be very depressing. 

That being said, the novel is very well written. The plot device of flipping back and forth from the past and present worked really well. It felt like a mystery for 75% of the story. It was fun, I tried to figure out why people acted in certain ways and did certain things. The descriptive language throughout the book was beautiful at times and always made me feel like I was right there with Grace the entire time. It was like watching a movie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Sexual assault, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Infidelity and Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming, Mental illness, and Police brutality

maggieperrien's review against another edition

dark funny reflective 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

Minor: Infidelity and Death of parent

prairieraven's review

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

3.25

Wish this book came with reader warnings for trauma responses (which start to happen part way through the book) starts out a bit fun, but as time goes on the story becomes wildly unhinged, and switches from amusing to beyond heartbreaking. 

Not sure of this story affected me more because I'm a parent of children/some now adults, or because I have my own traumas and mental health issues. The main characters are all flawed like real people and make the best and worst decisions like we all do. 

I read this all in one sitting, started at 11pm and finished at 2 am. The storyline hooks start early with this one and pull all the way through. Heartbreaking all the way through to the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

franklola's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.25

You will cry and cry and cry and cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

victoriarosalesvt's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

The writing was good, and I liked how fast paste and short the chapters were, but it was just not what I was expecting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

staylorreads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Body shaming

jan_db's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.75

i really enjoyed this book, it took me a while to get through it though but I couldn’t put it down in the last third. i really like her writing style and the characters were very interesting, albeit flawed. there were a few plot twists that i didn’t see coming, and definitely would urge people to check up on some of the content warnings because they kinda come out of nowhere 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Infertility and Infidelity

Minor: Death of parent

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Rounding up to a four. The books starts out in a way I’m thinking is going to be cute. It’s anything but. It’s arduous, and I was annoyed for a big part of it because it seemed like everything was being dragged out too slowly between the three timelines. But when everything was finally revealed, I realized it needed to take all this time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

laheath's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.0

This book was not what I expected, but so much more!  It rotates among three time periods, 20+ years ago when Grace met her husband, 4 months ago when her life really took a downward turn, and present time when Grace is simply trying to get a cake to her daughter's 16th birthday party.  Surprisingly, it wasn't difficult at all to keep up with the different time periods.  It began as a familiar story of a middle-aged, perimenopausal woman who decided she was fed up with the everyday nuisances of her life, i.e., the things women are expected to put up with, and instead was going to take action rather than tolerate them anymore.  There are several funny anecdotes about her standing up for herself, but as the story continues, it becomes more serious, and heartbreaking in ways that any mother could imagine.  She learns more about herself and her family, and how she could have handled things differently without taking the blame for everything.  As other reviews have mentioned, it did seem like the author tried to put a lot of issues into one story, but at the same time, combined with the flashbacks to the other time periods, they actually worked to explain Grace's situation.  Wonderful debut and great cover!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

Minor: Body shaming and Sexual content