Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

23 reviews

meaghanelizabook's review

challenging emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Incest and Mental illness

issymaae's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Incest, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide, Stalking, and Alcohol

macncheese_pdf's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Incest, Grief, and Death of parent

alicroz34's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Parts of this book were so completely incredible that I wanted to give it five stars, but other parts fell a bit short. 

"She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed into a different room, and trapped you in it without them." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

gabbygarcia's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

veronyqueso's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

fatfrog's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

dizzyindecision's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

There were a handful of sentences that I loved/thought were beautiful but I hated pretty much everything else. idk. maybe I’m not big brained enough to appreciate it. Definitely could have done without all of the references to incest. 🤢

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Incest

jarshual's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent

ardour's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

- there are no official or explicit themes of either mental illness or psychosis in the book, however much of the novel is the narrator processing and reflecting on their deep grief, and for a large (very metaphorical) chunk of the book they are very detached from reality in a dissociative way that some do after experiencing trauma — I wanted to give a paranoia/delusions content warning for that portion of the book that it dips in and out of reality and can be quite disorientating. - other than that, the way the author deals with things that may qualify for one psychiatric diagnosis or another, is very holistic and de-pathologising/de-stigmatising as it is framed as part of the human experience for many people. No ableism or stigma applied by author.