Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

7 reviews

nathiddles_106's review

dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

The story's pacing was a luttle slow and the switch of POVs between the two MC, Simon and Marie, was a bit confusing.
This story is an exploration of grief and how some family cannot move on.
The ending was dark.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, Death, and Grief

hotkoolaidpotato's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Infertility

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Abortion and Infidelity

stephen_reads's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Child death

aliciawithoutkeys's review

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Minor: Suicide

elysianbud's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Very prettily written with some lovely turns of phrase. Eerie atmosphere. Predictable plot, but I think that's the point--it's tragic, you know how it ends because it tells you near the beginning, the interest is how they get to that conclusion. Characters are not nice people at all though, makes it very hard to care about them. 
Short, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Ableism, Abortion, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, and Medical trauma

kimberleydawn's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Devastating but doesn’t leave you depressed. Hopefully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Medical content, and Alcohol

bratatouille's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Holy shit this was stunning. For being such a short story, its impact is. Dang. It’s unsettling and lyrical. It handles grief in a way I haven’t seen depicted. This is the sort of book that grabs hold of you quickly. It’s incredibly foreboding and there is a darkness steeped deeply into every character. It has mild aspects of surrealism which, as we’ve all learned by now, is kinda my jam. However, it’s not the level of having to heavily suspend your disbelief. It’s a speculative, weird, ominous jewel hidden in the corners of indie publishing. I am docking it like HALF a star because I thought one of the reveals was lackluster. Although, I am not mad about it. I seriously am not going to forget this book I might reread it again soon just to reprocess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide

Minor: Violence and Alcohol