Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

30 reviews

applezing's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Pregnancy and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Vomit, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

eagoldberg's review against another edition

emotional funny slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

stacy837's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion

typedtruths's review against another edition

Not my vibe 🤷🏼‍♀️ It was an interesting exploration of a dysfunctional family but the focus on taxidermy, suicide and adulterey with all of it’s weird literary fiction writing didn’t do it for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

sarahlovesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-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? Yes

1.0

I like the author and I liked With Teeth, but this wasn't for me. There just wasn't going on (slow paced) and the characters were just frustrating in a way. If you like books with weird characters who kind of stuck, this could be for you.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Grief, and Death of parent

ecn's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.75

Nothing about this story was resolved and not in a fun way. So much and so little happened that it dragged on. Easily could have been half the length. I wanted to know SO much more about every character and we were given nothing. I felt like i was a therapist sitting with a client trying to help them organize their stories and getting nowhere. The flashbacks were disjointed and only added to the trauma and grief that ran through everything but never fulling etching into to the main character’s personality, only explaining why she’s shut off.
The ending also seemed extremely abrupt. Too much was trying to be resolved in a matter of DAYS and the characters glossed over so much and so much was implied that it seemed impossible and unrealistic for them to be how things would unfold.
This book had so much promise but ended up falling so flat. I wanted more for and of every character but wasn’t given a fraction (felt very indicative of how they were treated I’m sure - maybe it’s stylistic).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

hannakutlu's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

frecca95's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

fendergender's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

4.0

yes i recognize the irony of me becoming absolutely engrossed in a book about sometimes illegal taxidermy but the exploration of self and grief and where they intersect Got 2 me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Gore

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent