Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Gece Yarısı Kütüphanesi by Matt Haig

652 reviews

khayes2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

I really enjoyed this! It kept me on my toes and was only cliché for a moment 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

digitaljuno's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

The premise has tons of potential but it reads like a manic pixie dream girl going through depression. She can be so many thing because she’s that amazing. It gets annoying tbh. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death

jenniferbowman's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

JUST finished this book, and my inclination is to go with a 2.5/5 rating. Beginning the book, I expected it would be 4 stars, but as the story went on, the premise of the story wandered back and forth from “who would you be?” scenarios to long discussions about string theory. I could have done without all of the scientific explanation, and would have welcomed more of a magical realism acceptance of what was happening.

I was also a little off-put by the fact that a male author wrote a female protagonist…it wasn’t always obvious, but I feel like the characters lacked depth and I wonder if that might have been why.

In the end, I think this is probably more of a 3 star read, but the fact that I couldn’t wait for the book to end and ended up zoning out in the second half so often led me to enjoy the book much less overall than I expected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

kayabaj's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

caitbop5'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Dysphoria

buttercup_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty

gabireadsyou's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

It was lovely, but frequently cheesy (but as someone who has struggled with accepting mortality it was quite nice!!!)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

lcc_xx's review against another edition

hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

2.5

This would be a great book for someone to get back into reading or out of slump. Very easy/quick read, with simple language. I like the meaning/message that is being communicated to the reader throughout the story. I could see this book having a great movie adaptation someday.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

oliviarose05's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Self harm, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty

kashiixx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt