Reviews tagging 'Grief'

An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi

32 reviews

criticalbooks's review

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Car accident, Abandonment, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Islamophobia

ceciliabereadin's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Self harm, Islamophobia, and Death

yumnerd's review

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Grief

Moderate: Toxic friendship

emordnilap's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.75

difficult but important read
should have content warnings in the front(it is what prevents the story from having 5 stars)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Car accident and Islamophobia

princess72's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Death, and Grief

shelbsies's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

3.75
Don't go into this book expecting a typical plot, it's very much character and emotion driven.

I really do love Mafi's writing style, it's beautiful yet accessible and I always get in wrapped into it... and while I did get wrapped into this story I felt myself longing for more. I feel that this book could've had a lot more pages; this story could've been expanded and been a deeper dive into Shadi's emotions and the complexity and confusion of them. Perhaps, though, this is an appropriate amount of heaviness and pondering for a YA story and that's the adult in me wanting to be in the emotions more. Anyway, the ending just sort of fell flat for me and felt inconclusive.

One smallll, spoilery thing that bothered me was

the relationship between Shadi and
Ali, I understood that they had liked each other for a long time but it when Ali kissed her while she was clearly not well (twice!!), that just felt weird and out of place for me.

Also, I can't speak for Muslim rep, but I've seen in many own voices reviews that people are not pleased with Mafi's Muslim representation in her stories. Something to look into and know if you plan to read this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia and Grief

Moderate: Self harm

se6500's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Islamophobia, and Self harm

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

maple_dove's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

One of the bad things about this book though is that Shadi describes burqas as "gross tent things." ._.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Self harm, Grief, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Death and Medical content

Minor: Car accident

Smoking

s3lin's review

emotional reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Self harm, Toxic friendship, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content and Mental illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Hate crime

rey_therese07's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Car accident, Drug abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, and War