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What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

19 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

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Dementia

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

areed99's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Rape

amysrrls's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I only finished this book because I hate DNF’ing books. But good god, this book felt so unnecessarily long. Also all Quaker and God stuff got to be too much as the book went on. But seriously, this book was just depressing with unnecessary detail about

dog deaths

and I didn’t find the ending to even be uplifting or impactful. It felt like a book written by someone who only ever wanted to write one book so they included every single reflective thought they’ve ever had of love, life, death, and grief and it didn’t feel cohesive. Basically I think this book could’ve been cut in half and it would’ve been much more enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Murder, Suicide, Rape, and Animal death

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, Grief, Murder, Child death, Suicide, and Death

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

saville08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Murder, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

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: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty and Sexual assault

kloft1993's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Abandonment, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Alcohol, Classism, Gun violence, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Minor: Infidelity and Medical content

mbedrosian's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Pedophilia

Minor: Dementia

lcg527's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Pedophilia, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death, Child abuse, Blood, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal cruelty