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lawbooks600's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Score: Seven points out of ten.
I wanted to read this book for a while now and not long after I picked it up from one of the two libraries I go to and I noticed something, one issue (I'll get to that later) and the second is the book tried to be emotional. Tried. I don't know why, but I didn't shed a single tear during any part of the book, it might have something to do with the plot? I don't know. It starts with the main character Mia whose last name I don't remember and everything appears fine until she was in a car with her family when it ended up in a car crash. That accident killed Mia's parents and brother Teddy but she survived and now she is in this out-of-body experience which happens for most of the story. Now that I said that the book straight up turns from a linear to a non-linear one once it started putting in some flashbacks. There were a lot of them which almost made up half of the book and they told me about Mia's life before the accident, her relationships with her parents, brother and even Adam, and let me let you two things, one, I've seen a character like this before but it's rare to see a teenage character like classical music and two, I've seen books like this before in the form of Last Chance Angel by Alex Gutterridge and Broken by Elizabeth Pulford but they don't even compare to this. The first few pages revolve around Mia being evacuated and being on life support but after that the book slowed heavily from there but that didn't decrease my enjoyment of this though I would like it better if I could connect to the characters more. In the end Mia wakes up after only 200 pages and afterwards there were a lot of bonus content which I enjoyed reading. The entire book is dated but then again this was published a decade ago so there's that.
Graphic: Car accident, Death, Grief, and Medical content
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Full trigger warnings: Death of parents, a child and brother in a car crash, near-death experience, coma, suicidal thoughts, out-of-body experiencesamone2's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, and Death
Moderate: Child death, Medical trauma, and Medical content
alexmall029's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death, Child death, and Death of parent
arshiya_amreen90786's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Child death
emilia_reads_123's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, Death, and Medical content
aly97's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, and Medical content
Moderate: Child death
phantomgecko's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
As it is, I didn't care about any of the characters in the beginning and nothing that happened throughout changed that. It was boring. Like it legit is a clips episode of a tv show. There's technically things happening in the forefront, but the majority is random flashbacks. Nonchronological, disjointed little clips. Presented thus, there's no character development, no plot. Just....a lot lot lot of exposition.Ā
So, at least it was short.
(Also, the narrator of the audiobook mispronounced several words including "sudoku")
Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, and Car accident
psliz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Death of parent, and Car accident
grey_writes_love's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Death, and Abandonment
Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma
Minor: Alcohol
notyourhana's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, and Death of parent
Minor: Sexual content