Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale

14 reviews

scmiller's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Hate crime, Blood, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Gore, Infertility, Vomit, Dementia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

supermormongirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

mandareads222's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Outing

Minor: Child abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

charadelle's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

Listened to the audiobook for book club. It was decently funny and lighthearted while tackling a dark topic. While I understand why the author set this book during the COVID lockdown, it was one of the parts of the book that I disliked most.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death

Minor: Death of parent

emilyyjjean's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

5.0

First off, please pay attention to content warnings. This book could potentially be triggering to some people. 

This was such an emotional but also funny book. I really like how the author weaved in dark humor with the heavy plot topic. I loved all the characters and I felt so stressed for them while they were trying to sort everything out. There were many ups and downs in this book, but it all kept me reading; I couldn’t put it down! 

I’m glad these women were able to escape their husbands. I know the situation in which they’ve escaped is pretty iffy, since they did sort of murder them. But most people aren’t  actually able to escape, and I’m sure that Lockdown made some situations even worse. This book really made me reflect on domestic violence, and I’m definitely going to look into seeing how I can help in my community.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Homophobia

jacquelinecrane's review

dark funny informative inspiring lighthearted 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Murder

mslori's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Just a chefs kiss of a book. Both funny and super dark. Well narrated too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Gaslighting

loverly7's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Physical abuse

jennastopreading's review against another edition

It may have just been that I lost momentum, but I had no desire to pick it up in between reading sessions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Domestic abuse

stitchbooks22's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

I really enjoyed this and raced through it. It focuses on an important topic (domestic violence) and is set in the Covid lockdown. I think it worked really well and was very funny, despite the seriousness of the topic. The friendship that formed between the women was also wonderful to see come to life throughout the story. I’d really recommend this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Infertility