Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

6 reviews

raybudbury's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I loveeeee when authors do multiple different povs as an effect of what’s going on in the story. We got 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in this bad boy. 

I’m jumping between 3.5-4 with this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Murder

saskia_ej's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Religious bigotry

annaforthebooks's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Grief

Moderate: Religious bigotry

aseel_reads's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

As some of the other reviews have said, this was such a powerful study of grief. The characters were so interesting and fleshed out, I could feel their pain and it was heartbreaking, argh, so good and sad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent

katewhite77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

One of the most moving books I have read in sometime.

The action pivots round a particular day when Alice Reikes inadvertently witnesses something shocking on Waverley Station. The straw that broke the camel's back. 

The writing in this is effortlessly beautiful and the plot structure is quite unusual but this in large oart is why it is so moving. 

Themes that are explored include, inherited trauma, grief, parenting, relationships, religion and the secrets we keep. 

In a lesser writer's hands this could have been such a cumbersome book but in in  O'Farrell's hands it is anything but. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

213lb's review

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Religious bigotry