Reviews tagging 'Death'

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

13 reviews

tomesandtea's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Self harm, Suicide, and Pregnancy

chelle22's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

laura_berger's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Transphobia, and Pregnancy

jgintrovertedreader's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Transphobia, and Violence

mangofraiche's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Medical content

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Excrement, Medical content, Outing, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

mariposa517's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Outing, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Alcohol

the_true_monroe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Outing, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Blood, and Abortion

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Classism

riverofpages's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Death

1quillb's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.75

This only thing that prevents me from rating this 5 stars is the (annoyingly) heavy emphasis placed upon keeping Poppy’s identity a secret—I didn’t, and continue to not, understand why not telling everyone that she’s trans is an issue. But seeing as this is written by the mother of a trans kid, I guess I can understand why it focused so much on the effects of “hiding” her identity. I just don’t personally see how it could be a problem.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Medical content, and Outing

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria

mel_s_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Transphobia, Medical content, and Outing

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Pregnancy