Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim

40 reviews

sarahbook's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

I liked Quinto and Emmet; they were both sweet characters. I was proud of them for their character growth. I felt like the pacing was maybe a bit off with how they eventually decided to be together and how quickly they were able to (seemingly) get over their grief. But the metaphors about music in this book were absolutely top notch. Very beautiful!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

merryfaith's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Vomit, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

brokenlightdances's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Death of parent

Minor: Fatphobia

slowburnsrus's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

I absolutely loved this beautiful queer romance. I don’t usually like books that alternate past and present chapters,  but I loved the flow of the story here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Sexual content and Death of parent

Minor: Deadnaming, Blood, Car accident, and Outing

knunderb's review

emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

A beautiful, funny, lovely book. I truly enjoyed how the love story unfolded and how the characters grew over the novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Vomit, and Alcohol

cleo_reads's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Emotionally compelling debut gay romance between a Filipino American pianist and his former high school bff / secret crush turned mega famous movie star. 

This works best as a love letter to music and the power of singing together. I thought the romance was a little weak, both because it’s told from a single pov and because the h/h don’t spend much time together in the present timeline. The pacing was a little off. And it’s definitely heavier than the light hearted cover implies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Homophobia and Death of parent

20sidedbi's review

emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Addiction, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Medical content

nina_readsbooks's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia and Transphobia

pawtory's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

I thought this was a really solid romance and one of the best audiobooks I've heard, loved the incorporation of actual music. I do hope it gets a stage musical version some day. Appreciated the diversity - AAPI & neurodivergent MCs, Black trans best friend. It was written to be a romcom tho (according to author coda) and I didn't really find myself laughing much. Also the MC could be randomly critical of (unimportant) things that made me dislike him a bit. He was flawed but not really given much character growth for addressing the flaws? And there was enough sad stuff in it (mind the triggers) that it really didn't feel like a romcom. Overall well written and I think more people should check it out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity

schweibertsm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

4.5

This book was so good, I love Quito's father so much and the flashbacks to how Emmett and Quito's friendship and relationship developed. This book had so many lovely moments, but there were also some moments I just wanted to skip past, mainly anything with Mark. I love that the audiobook had actual singing. This also would have been great have dual perspective. Definitely a favorite for this year.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Transphobia, Car accident, Death of parent, and Outing