Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

91 reviews

meeve's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Homophobia, Mental illness, and Vomit

elenammartinez's review

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Grief

kshertz's review

emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

It’s not your typical easy going romance. The teacher these two women love who really saw them is dying and they have to take him on his dying wish of a roadtrip and for them to go from enemies to lovers. It’s a hard read to have a love story and a death story put together but it’s well done. I think I would have preferred something fluffier based on the cover but I heard the theme of live your life to the fullest. Message received. Letting people love you and letting go of control. Always important to remember. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

mooseinlowlight's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

The cursing with queer icon names was almost too much for me lmao, but I'm happy I stuck with this book. 

I love when a writer is able to capture the joy and safety in queer spaces like drag shows. Its such a good and important feeling. 

The final act of this book was sad, but I liked it. 

I think the pacing was good even though I was afraid things would get tiring with the personality clashes. I liked the representation of neurodivergency too, it didn't feel like a Tumblr excerpt about ADHD.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Alcohol

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

While at its core, this is a book about death, it's also about life and living it to the fullest. I appreciated the way that ADHD and anxiety were discussed in this book, and neither character was reduced to just that. There's also a lot of talk about grief, about growing up, and about taking risks. An emotional ride, but definitely worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Vomit, and Death of parent

mand_al_orian's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, and Abandonment

stacy837's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

rgs's review

adventurous emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Outing, and Toxic friendship

berodatheelf's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief

grets_reads's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-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? Yes

4.5

There's a lot of big feelings in this one so as the Author's note mentions, this is one go gently with (so so many tissues); but it also had me laughing out loud with the characters and so much that resonated. A lot of heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Car accident