Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

5 reviews

anderson27paige's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

I refuse to rate this book because it is simultaneously one of the best and one of the worst books I've ever read. Zevin's writing is one of the most unique I've ever experienced. It's one of the only modern day fiction novels that I truly believed would be receiving a 5 stars for the incredible plot and dynamic character building; HOWEVER, the liberal ideologies plasted throughout this book were incredibly jaring and, at times, disgusting. About halfway through the book, it started getting slightly political, but I decided to ignore it as the story was so masterful. Though, the longer the book went on, the worse it became until it was all I could focus on and it ruined the last half of the book for me. I am open to reading more of this author' work in the future, but she is on a very thin line with me. I am a firm believer that things becoming political ruins them, and that is exactly what happened in this book. It's a tragedy. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

maddieframe's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

dannothedino's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Abortion, Cultural appropriation, and Abandonment

kaimetcalfe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Hate crime, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Cultural appropriation

skudiklier's review against another edition

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? Yes

5.0

Wow, this book was stunning. I was pulled in right from the start, and didn't lose interest at any point. It's absolutely gorgeous, about so many different things, and I'd recommend it to anyone. 

I don't spoil anything directly, but if you're worried about spoilers, you might want to skip the next three paragraphs. The final three paragraphs don't have any spoilers. 

A weird thing about my experience of reading this book was that by the time I was halfway through, it felt like I'd read an entire book--like maybe it should be done already. And I want to be clear I don't mean that in a bad way, like the book felt too long or had poor pacing. It just felt like some books could have ended it there, and been interesting and relatively satisfying overall. 

But because I knew I was only halfway through, I started getting worried: yes, this book had complicated relationships, and things that frustrated me, and heartbreaking tragedies. But what if something even worse was going to happen? What if this book was actually devastating, and I just didn't know it yet? 

Reader, this book was devastating. My intuition was right, but I had no idea what was going to happen until it was too late. I sobbed through a large section of this book, and was teary-eyed through the whole rest of it, all the way until the end. I already liked this book, and felt it was emotionally deep and moving, but then it just absolutely gutted me. 

This book was moving in so many ways. Emotionally, the characters and their relationships are so rich and real and complicated and messy. No one is perfectly likable all the time, and you're not on one character's side the whole way through. But also creatively, this book was so inspiring. I don't play a lot of video games, and know very little about making them, but I do write poetry. At one point I had to stop writing to frantically write down an idea--I'd been waiting for a breakthrough epiphany about something for over a year, and this book finally helped me crack it open, at least a little. 

The quotes I pulled from this book to save for later are gorgeous, and the writing is superb. I love the way the book plays with time, and how the future is so casually and distressingly referenced. In a way, it lulled me into thinking I knew what was coming, without ever revealing the worst part.

I tore my way through this book, and basically spent a whole weekend in this world. I'm so grateful to Netgalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for the chance to read and review this ARC. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Eating disorder, and Abortion

No adult/minor relationships, but there is a central one between a professor and a student, when the professor is 28 and the student is 19