Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

9 reviews

kayleigh214's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Suicide, and Physical abuse

pollyflorence's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Car accident, and Suicide

karmapen's review

dark mysterious tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Car accident

Moderate: Suicide, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Stalking, and Self harm

Minor: Infidelity

reddybeast's review

dark emotional reflective tense slow-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

3.0

I don’t know if I liked this book or if I just appreciate St. john Mendel as an excellent writer? I felt miserable most of the time while reading it but it’s also a very sad book? so idk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Child abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Abandonment, and Drug use

musicalpopcorn's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

4.25

When Lilia does what she always does and disappears, her boyfriend Eli follows her to Montreal and discovers what it means to skate along the surface of life.

I just love Emily St John Mandel. Every book of hers that I read is another intensely emotional experience for me. While this is my least favourite of the three I’ve read, I still whole-heartedly enjoyed it and wanted to learn Lilia’s story more and more. 

I would say that given this is one of her earlier novels, it isn’t quite as polished as some of her more recent ones, but it is still beautiful and speaks to me in a way I can’t describe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Stalking, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Abandonment

readwithchar's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Child abuse

Moderate: Transphobia and Suicide

errie's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Stalking, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death, Drug use, Abandonment, and Car accident

ashberk18's review

dark reflective 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

4.5

Emily St. John Mandel's writing is just superior - vivid details, nuanced character, the right mix of pacing. I felt cold when she was writing about Montreal in the winter, I felt the overwhelming beat of the sounds in a nightclub. She's just a master. I like the pacing of the chapters - some short, and some long. I got a little tired of the back-and-forth perspectives but it generally worked. We all know people who have characteristics like this - and are drawn to dark and dead end paths but take them anyway. This book helped me understand those people a little bit more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

sorcha's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, Child abuse, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Infidelity, and Drug use