Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

5 reviews

lenin_lover_69's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I've never read a MOF book before but I know a lot of people love her so was really excited. This book left me pretty cold, I'm going to try one of her later ones. 

I enjoyed the writing a lot more

after John dies and the writing about grief felt soooo much more authentic than anyhing prior to that.

The main character Alice unfortunately was giving borderline manic pixie dream girl/not like other girls and I'm extremely turned off about female characters for who the primary part of their personality is that they are hot and damaged and therefore men constantly fall in love with them in spite of a pretty unpleasant and annoying personality. The writing around

her and John falling in love and having sex made me cringe sooo much esp when they go to the lake district. Why does this adult man have the inner diallogue of a 12 year old seeing a naked woman for the first time!!!!!

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I enjoyed the storyline that related to Alice's family much more on the whole, especially her maternal grandmother. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Self harm, and Grief

Moderate: Stalking

aseel_reads's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

As some of the other reviews have said, this was such a powerful study of grief. The characters were so interesting and fleshed out, I could feel their pain and it was heartbreaking, argh, so good and sad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent

ambermariebee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

kazzhiggs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

amberinbookland's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Antisemitism