Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Morgen, morgen und wieder morgen by Gabrielle Zevin

172 reviews

ebreheny25's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

Wow. This book lived up to all of its expectations. While it wasn’t as emotional of an ending as I anticipated. It still hit nonetheless. I think this should be a required reading anywhere and everywhere. So much love and admiration to Gabrielle Zevin. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Abortion, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Xenophobia

augie_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

narbine's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Abortion, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

risanne_reads's review against another edition

sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

 "What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever."

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Knowing that I am not someone who normally enjoys Lit Fic, or who enjoys really anything that is based in reality, you can take my rating and review with a grain of salt. I'm very much in the minority with my feelings toward this book.

I didn't like this. At all.

This is constantly pitched as a story about lasting platonic friendship (which is fabulous if that was actually what this story was, since there's not enough of platonic friendships in the literary world). It's not. I have a hard time believing that Sadie and Sam are even friends, let alone best friends.

I have no problem reading about flawed characters, flawed individuals, whatever. People often suck and are awful to each other and themselves and that's fine. But there's got to be something that makes them redeemable and make you believe that they're a good person. And there's none of that in this

I actually really love the game creation and escapism aspects to this story, and the conversations about being someone else while you're inside of a game, and possessing the knowledge that no matter how often you fail or do the wrong thing, you can always try again. If the whole book had been just like that, then this probably would have earned a 3-4 star rating, even with the above complaints. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Gun violence and Cultural appropriation

Also the fact that Marx died is a personal attack since he was the only redeemable character in this story besides Sam's grandparents.

jillaay_h's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

adavis16's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Chronic illness, Car accident, and Death of parent

katiefurms's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

absolutely phenomenal book. I was entranced the entire way through. This book plays with time/chronology in a way that really keeps you hooked, always wondering how the story will get to the future that you know it eventually gets to. The characters are remarkably well written and so complex. The story is beautiful. I couldn’t put it down before, but especially after, the chapter called “The NPC.” That chapter is one of the most beautifully written chunks of literature I’ve ever read. I’m gonna have to go back and read this again, for sure. I recommend this to everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexism, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Abortion

annaptobias's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Injury/Injury detail

lailajm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

Few times have I read anything that made me feel the way this book did. ! The characters were so well written that I simultaneously  loved and hated them although the one slight drawback I had was that sometimes the characters were slightly unbearable but ultimately flawed characters often make a compelling book! It's the kind of book that makes you struggle to read anything else afterwards. Platonic love is so rarely written about but in this book it was presented in such a beautiful way. Read it please, you will never recover from it.  
The author is a Zionist I believe though so buy the book second hand if you can! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent