Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

176 reviews

mj_86's review against another edition

hopeful reflective 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

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Car accident

Moderate: Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism, Infertility, and Vomit

amgarrido's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Moderate: Suicide

glitterdeww's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

"Sometimes books don't find us until the right time." ... Oof. Lol

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Suicide, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death and Miscarriage

booksgoodformysoul's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Suicide, and Car accident

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

Similar to Aj, I adore when we find books at the moment in time when we need them most. I am so thankful for Gabrielle Zevin and her beautiful words for giving me something to believe in, and reminding me why I love reading

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

rnbhargava's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense 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

4.25

This book isn’t perfect but the characters are so well executed and it’s all a very plausible life depiction of the title character and the characters around him that are his nearest and dearest. I would heartily recommend this book to anyone.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Please note the alcoholism, suicide, miscarriage and car accident and the accompanying grief that could be caused by these are recurring themes in this book.

slinkmalink's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

Enjoyable, light-hearted read about books and unexpected connections.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Death and Suicide

sam_the_panda's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing 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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, and Death of parent

gavinn_h's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

Okay so,

What the fuck is wrong with Gabrielle Zevin.  This book was absolutely beautiful, however I don't know if I would ever have picked it up knowing the ending.  Despite the horrifically sad events in this book, it is incredible.  I had a feeling things were going too well for it to end happy, but I didn't think it would be like this.  The sick irony of it all is that my book club picked this book for our "happy ending" prompt.  Although I can see how this is, in fact, a happy ending I was just so attached to A.J. to feel happy.  Overall I am so happy to have found this book, it quickly made its way in to my top books of all time (thus far).  I believe later (much later) after I have nursed my wounds I will return to this book again and again. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicide, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism

sagemeadow's review against another edition

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? No

4.25

My main takeaway is to read more Gabrielle Zevin books. She writes with great detail yet it remains concise and under 300 pages i think? Started and finished it in one day. I probably would have cried if I had slowed my reading and let myself think about the story more before going back to it. So many twists in this. A romance, single dad story and mystery all in one. 

---

Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide