Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Sadie by Courtney Summers

113 reviews

baraya's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

pagesihavenotyetread's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, Cursing, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Rape

robin_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

This was much sadder than I expected it to be. 
Check TW/CW before reading this. 
It’s heavy on the topics of revenge in connection with grief and sexually abused children. 
It left me feeling angry and sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Murder, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer

bookishchaos's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Out of the hundreds of books I've read...I've never read a book that ended like this one did.
I highly recommend if you enjoy fast paced psychological thrillers, with feminine rage and/or true crime podcasts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, and Blood

Minor: Grief

cjreadstoomuch's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Addiction, Death, Murder, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

daturas's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Murder, and Pedophilia

The child abuse and pedophilia I added into my content warnings is a large part of the main plot, but the actual abuse is only alluded to in flashbacks or briefly in person. You are never witness to it.

bookedbymadeline's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

It’s a dark, heartbreaking book with twists I didn’t see coming. I loved the switches from Sadie’s POV to the podcast with West! It’s a unique concept for a novel, which made it even more interesting to read. It took some time to get into the story as the first half was a bit slower and more detailed, especially from Sadie’s chapters. By the second half I flew through the pages, not wanting to put it down.

I think the ending was perfect for this type of story. The pacing overall was also fairly well done, with nothing being rushed or dragged out! There’s a lot of characters so although we only get to really know a few of them, the side characters are still well written. We get enough of a description to picture them but most of them we only get passing glimpses rather than any depth as we take the journey with Sadie. I know I’m going to be thinking about this one for a long time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Death and Suicide attempt

vincentedward16's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Grief, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Car accident

chronicloser's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.75

this was so damn powerful, and I had no idea how much it’d hit me. it’s hardship, it’s love, it’s hurt, it’s love wrapped around hurt and hurt wrapped around love. it’s what a lot of these “mysterious” and “plot twist-y” books can’t, for the life of them, grasp onto. it’s what they always forget to highlight. with the twists and turns, with the “ooooh, what happens next?” there should always be a sadie. and thats not to say it’s something authors don’t try to accomplish, I can appreciate the efforts, but its so easy to tell when the story is made around the character, aka sadie, vs when the character is made around the story. even if the plot was born first, courtney summers made it so sadie was prioritized first. this wasn’t a book about a crime, a murder, about finding answers. it has that, well, most of that, sure, but it’s not about that; it’s about way more. it was an honor to cry at work while finishing it, knowing I had read something that hit me right where it was meant to hit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Grief, Murder, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Stalking, Addiction, Rape, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Eating disorder and Suicide attempt

curlscout's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Rape, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Drug use, and Grief