Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Normal People, by Sally Rooney

234 reviews

lucinotlucy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Bullying, and Panic attacks/disorders

elisabethshanahan's review

emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Infidelity, Death, and Blood

Minor: Classism, Cursing, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Suicide

saskiahill's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, and Infidelity

cdoubet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Body horror, Cursing, Grief, and Rape

danigraham's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

pageafter_paige's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

I truely loved this book so much. I liked the unique writing style and I found the characters very loves me. I was rooting for Marianne and Connell the entire time as the grew up together. This book break my heart in many pieces but that just shows how invested I was. I can’t believe I hadn’t read this sooner. This book is definitely one worth the hype! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

lauraleamariereads's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

April 2023 book club — millennial problems (sigh).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content

michaelion's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

These people are literally, as I'm sure others have said, so normal. I don't mean that derogatorily. I really enjoyed the book. I like slice of life even though I don't read or watch it as much as I should. Not as much attention is put into this genre even though it's just as important as any other.

My only issues are with the way it was written. That's more of a personal thing though. I find dialogue to be the most important part of a piece of media involving two or more people and in this book there are no quotation marks. The writing is very, very good, so the issue was when it flipped from being internal and external. Although I'm sure that was intentional. My other issue is I didn't like how their stories went. But that's another personal thing! If only they knew how to just talk to each other! Even still I think they're the kind of people who will get married in the future whether or not they work on themselves. They're it for each other. I like that, but I wish they were healthier!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Bullying, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Drug use, Grief, Biphobia, Antisemitism, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Blood

tatjanasbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Bullying, Abandonment, Classism, Death, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol, Medical content, Drug use, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, and Blood