Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks

11 reviews

bookishbakesco's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Mental illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Child abuse

rosalind's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Blood, Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Vomit, Slavery, Rape, Excrement, and Religious bigotry

rld1727's review

2.75

This book was a weird ride. I didn’t love it, but I stuck around because I had read reviews of how the plot goes kind of haywire later on in the book - it does, indeed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Vomit, Sexism, Death, Medical content, Blood, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Grief

kelseak96's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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: Death, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Torture, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Child abuse

kianga_black's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Child abuse, Abortion, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Violence, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, and Blood

sleeson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Pregnancy

raoulalexander's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Death of parent, Grief, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Gore, Confinement, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, Sexual assault, Drug use, and Adult/minor relationship

cptnstphy's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

Brooks' prose was gorgeous and brought the reader along as if they were right there in the village, such that it was like watching a film (if not for all the grisly and demonic details, I would want to see this film). Despite the reader knowing how the book would generally end (most villagers dead of the plague) she still manages to create suspense and craft a twist ending none could have predicted (in a dazzling, exciting, and satisfying way, in my opinion). The characters were well-crafted, some with unexpected nuance, although our hero was perhaps too Good and without many interesting flaws. Year of Wonders gripped me from beginning to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Hate crime, Misogyny, Child death, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Gore, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Abortion, Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Murder, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Infertility, Addiction, Death of parent, Excrement, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, Confinement, and Pregnancy

Minor: Slavery and Rape

coderedkira's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I read this in high school and it has stuck with me for years. I remember feeling enchanted by the writing even as it destroyed me emotionally. I was so invested in the well being of these characters even when the future looked bleak for them. I look forward to making time for a reread and I hope it continues to live up to my memory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Child death

Minor: Alcoholism

mrremi's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

This isn't my normal type of book, so if I liked historical fiction more maybe my rating would be higher.  I kind of just pushed through in the beginning because I'm reading for a reading challenge and I refused to give up.  But it wasn't as interesting and action packed as my usual fantasy books.  However, it did grow on me more and my goodness so many things happened over the course of the year.  Anna is a very strong woman but the most interesting part of her story to me was what happened in the epilogue honestly.  But I guess that it took her growth within this year to allow her to get to that different side of her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Abortion, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, and Drug use