Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

4 reviews

ashleyjb's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

I really wanted to like this book because I love Judy Blume and the premise appealed to me, but it just didn’t deliver. Nothing about the plot was remotely satisfying and I found myself deeply uncomfortable by some of the descriptions of the young girls bodies. The age-gap romances were uncomfortable and never addressed properly. The bond between the two main characters was strong but strange. It was almost as if they were in a toxic relationship and couldn’t survive without the other. The ending wasn’t predictable but it also wasn’t unprecedented. This book left me feeling sad, a little hopeless, and unsatisfied.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

marissagero's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism

risetorecede's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Drug use, Incest, Self harm, Antisemitism, Car accident, and Pregnancy

mmseiple's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Grief