Reviews tagging 'Grief'

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green

23 reviews

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Ah, this is difficult. I should have loved this. I wanted to love this so much. But unfortunately, I didn't. I did love the middle part with the puzzle, I basically flew through that. But the first 40% were really hard to get through and although the second half got better, I didn't feel much. I think this was my biggest issue with the book. I really liked the premise, the topics discussed here, the bi representation. I liked how media and the life of a person who suddenly becomes famous is depicted. And I understand that the protagonist is an unlikable character on purpose. I even liked that she had flaws and made mistakes (even though I got annoyed when she didn't learn from them at all). But at the same time she has issues with feelings and shuts them out completely, so I really had trouble to care for her story and her cause. Because I didn't feel anything. I didn't hate it, I just didn't love it either, so my rating is somewhere in the middle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Gun violence, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Homophobia

charlie_bro's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I am not really a science-fiction type of person, so I don‘t know if this is the case for all novels of that genre, but I kid you not when I say that I did not see any if that plot happen. And that definitely pulled me in very strongly and made me very eager to continue reading despite not really liking the main character, April (although I think that‘s the point).
Admittedly, the first 50 pages or so were a bit tough and I was worried that it was just gonna be a book about internet fame and the downside of that and blablabla, but once it got to that one point, oh boy, I could not put this novel down and finished it in one sitting. So keep pulling through, it is so worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Biphobia

ell_n's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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

5.0

This book does so many things- a look at humanity through a science fiction lens. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Biphobia, Hate crime, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

bsoviedo's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Violence, Kidnapping, Gore, Cursing, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Outing

Moderate: Biphobia, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: War, Vomit, Sexual content, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, and Xenophobia

rory_john14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Biphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Toxic friendship, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia, Hate crime, Racism, and Outing

Minor: Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Sexism, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Mental illness

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Biphobia, Death, and Medical content

alysereadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.75

Really enjoyed this book. Fast read, compelling, and realistic, flawed characters. The premise is an original idea with the commentary of political polarization, fame, power, and vitality of the internet. Excited for the sequel! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Biphobia, Kidnapping, and Outing

Minor: Grief and Stalking

katielaine_w's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Body horror, Blood, and Grief

milliemay0907's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book is truly an absolutely remarkable thing. Hank Greens writing is incredible and has the ability to make you think about humanity and also make you laugh out loud making you friends look at you with concerned faces. I love this book and I BEG you to read it. I feel like this book has the ability to unite us all, just like the April May did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Minor: Grief and Cursing

lisaandthebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

This book was amazing! It is sci-fi which is not something I usually love but what made this book so special is the humanity of it. The story - even though abstract and weird - is told in a way that makes me believe it. It reads like a kind of autobiography with an unreliable narrator. Throughout the book it gets hinted that the narrator is actually dead which is confusing but also we only know as much as the people knew at that point in the story.

This book also made me extremely angry. Hank Green manages to capture pure humanity and the basic human flaws in such a magnificently realistic way. He manages to name things that have always bothered me and the reactions of the characters to this crazy situation is absolutely realistic. I don't doubt for a second that if this would have been reality it could have been exactly like this.

Also our protagonist is extremely flawed. Still we root for her because she is our way into the story. She is the one that tells us about it but still she is pretty crappy sometimes and even aware if that. 

I love this book so much. And since the last few books I've read were all spectacular in their own way I fear those words may sound hollow - but they are nevertheless true. This was captivating, interesting, realistic and so so humbling.

And also the cliffhanger in the end makes me scream!! I am so glad the sequel is out already because otherwise I may have hated this book purely because of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Biphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Death, Medical content, Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder