Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

19 reviews

s3lin's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Abandonment

Moderate: Ableism and Death

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Dementia, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Child death

Minor: Excrement

cesarreads's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia

odyssia's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative 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? It's complicated

4.5

A brilliantly crafted book, drawing together different strands to build a story with two siblings from Afghanistan at its core. I found every strand interesting in isolation and each helped to understand a different aspect of the whole story, including the reasons behind certain characters' actions and mentalities. Moving without being excessively tragic with little flourishes that added tenderness.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Abortion, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

abominablesnowaro's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

shoohoob's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

The first half of the book? Immaculate, stunning, heart breaking, beautifully written. 

The second half? a little slower and harder to push through. Most of it is building characters while the first half is plot. I found it a bit hard to read at times. 

All in all? Khaled Hosseini could write a grocery list and I would eat it up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Kidnapping, and War

Minor: Cancer and Sexual content

azalia's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide, and Abandonment

Minor: War

miamcmillan's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

i started crying at page 54 and then i just couldn’t stop everything hosseini writes is utterly beautiful. i loved all the stories and how they wove into one another, i loved the exploration of youth and age and family and love. i can’t get over the way everything intertwines i feel like i’ve been given a gift but i’ve also been devastated.

the bit with adel was so well done but i feel is slightly lost just because of the magnitude of the main stories like you read it from the child’s perspective but you recognise the truth that his father’s a war criminal and his acceptance of his own acceptance of it if that makes sense it was absolutely agonising

i loved everything about it i feel like rereading it again immediately i just can’t stop thinking about it. just amazing and sensitive and brutal and everything under the sun i want to say thank u to khaled hosseini for writing this book tbh <3 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Death of parent, and War

ciara288's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This is an incredible book. It broke my heart every chapter and I was grateful for it. I immediately want to pick it up and start again. 
Khaled Hosseini is one of the best writers I have ever read. I have read too many people saying that all his books are the same but I could never get tired of the way he writes, and I feel like white writers never get the same criticism. People say write what you know, and you can feel how well he knows what he’s writing about. I could feel every emotion through the pages, I could envisage the Afghanistan in his mind. It made me think about my privilege and how lucky I am, whilst also acknowledging my own sorrows and the terrible state of this world.
I have read people saying that they liked this book less, that they didn’t connect to all the characters but I feel like I just felt everything for even more characters. I feel like I could’ve cried at every chapter, each character came through so strongly. I would advise people to go in expecting 9 interconnected short stories instead of 1 story but I don’t think the book is any worse for it, in fact it might even be more valuable for it for me. Writing this now I am still thinking about all the incredible details, all of the heartbreaking moments and I am just in awe of Khaled Hosseini. Everyone should read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Abandonment

Moderate: Murder