Reviews tagging 'Death'
Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition by Gail Simone, Marguerite Bennett, Tee Franklin
12 reviews
lidia710's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
Graphic: Dementia and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Death and Infidelity
tangleroot_eli's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia
Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, and Death
Minor: Medical content and Pregnancy
toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
This is such a beautiful and hopeful little book with really great art and a love story to tell that spans decades and persists in spite of everything. I devoured it. This edition also includes bonus content that you don't get in the original, so that's cool too.
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Dementia, Death, Death of parent, and Infidelity
thereaderfriend's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Dementia, Biphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Death and Infidelity
Minor: Religious bigotry
brookey8888's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Death, Grief, and Homophobia
purplepenning's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Biphobia, and Homophobia
Moderate: Misogyny, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Infidelity, Outing, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence
Beautiful body positive artdanajoy's review against another edition
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
2.5
It was wonderful to see a second chance romance between two older WOC. Love is not only for the young!
The early sections when Elle and Mari fell in love were so cute but I felt like there wasn't much tension when the reunited.
Spoiler
They just kiss when they see eachother again - right in the middle of church. Where is the pining? The will they/won't they. It just felt like there were some important narrative beats missing.I appreciated that some of the additional content added a bit of extra believability to the characters - particularly the one showing that things weren't just perfect the whole time.
The writing wasn't my favourite and I felt that there was a lot of development missing throughout. Not all of the additional content was written to the same calibre either.
I enjoyed the visuals but this was disappointing for me.
I am still very glad it exists.
Graphic: Homophobia
Moderate: Death, Dementia, Pregnancy, and Infidelity
sembich1031's review
- 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? No
5.0
Spoiler
I was reading this next to my own wife and when they died together at the end I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed while clutching my own wife.Graphic: Homophobia, Infidelity, Death, Dementia, and Religious bigotry
berodatheelf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Homophobia and Death