Reviews tagging 'Grief'

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

24 reviews

lizziaha's review against another edition

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

4.0

Damn there were some hard-hitting truths cooked into the story in this one. I saw a negative review of this book that criticized that the “alien book” wasn’t about aliens, and I have to wonder how someone can so entirely lack reading comprehension. As most alien books are, at their core, this book was about humans, in all their wonderful fucked up glory. It was about social media and how, like humans, there are two sides to that coin. It’s about fame and what it makes people do. And it’s about April, who is seriously seriously flawed. Just like everyone else. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Biphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Xenophobia, Addiction, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Violence

Minor: Grief and Homophobia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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