Reviews tagging 'Death'

What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

35 reviews

kimveach's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I picked this book up as it is this year's Everybody Reads selection in the Northwest US.  It was a beautiful book about forgiveness and moving on after a tragedy.  I especially enjoyed learning more about the Quaker faith of one of the main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Dementia

lingoreads's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

prairieraven's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

mayaanning's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Rape, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

lizschultz24's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Grief, and Murder

alyssagirardi's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Suicide, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Rape, Violence, Blood, and Abandonment

janicew9's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Suicide, and Pregnancy

lexa's review against another edition

At first I was captivated by this small town devastated by tragedy. And the short chapters kept me engaged. But as time went on it was just a slow push to get through. I don’t DNF often, and especially not this far into a book. However I’m at the point where I just don’t really care about the ending anymore. There’s not enough to keep me reaching for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicide, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Rape

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

3.5

This is another of a multitude of slice of life books I’ve been reading recently. Yet this is I believe the first time that I’ve read about a person who is a Quaker in the modern day timeline. Learning about Issac and his ties to this particular chosen faith was a cool learning experience for someone (aka me) who wasn’t familiar with the inner workings. Yet, this book is more than just Issac and his faith. This story encompasses Evangeline, (which means good news in its original Greek) who is sixteen and pregnant. Lorrie, who lost her husband and son to suicide. Jonah, the aforementioned dead son. Daniel, Isaac’s son who was killed by a person close to him. Although there is sadness and emotion, this is about a Pacific Northwest small community bringing themselves together to help each other, seek forgiveness and try to cope with the meaning of a higher power & what it means to live and let live. What Happens After is essentially revealing what people go through when they continue to live even after the people we love have been buried. The timeline does have flashbacks to give us further backstory but it’s intentional to the storyline.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty and Sexual assault

iamnita's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-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

4.0

This coming of age story was just beautiful. The book starts with each character separated and when it starts to come together it's just really well done. There's a lot of trauma-stuff so a trigger warning is definitely needed. There was a good deal of crime stuff, and a whole lot of run-of-the-mill daily drama that kept me turning the pages and wanting to know where we would end up.
There were 3 predominant POVs that were told in hindsight and I appreciated when the then-narrator would tell us about what they did. I wouldn't want anyone else's perspective on any of this - these were the right narrators.
I did listen to the audiobook which was 3 narrators for each POV which helped keep everything straight for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Child death and Death of parent