Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle

11 reviews

christinefitz's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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

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Mike Gayle has delighted me again with a sweet but sometimes painful story that had me gasping (more than once). Another pandemic novel, Gayle examines loneliness through 82-year-old Jamaican immigrant Hubert. He’s on a quest to prove to his daughter that he’s got plenty of friends and she shouldn’t worry about him from Australia. Alternating flashback chapters give Hubert’s present circumstances a deeper poignancy. As all my favorites do, this novel turns a group of trauma-inflicted misfits into a real community. A great examination of relationships and aging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Dementia, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Abortion

siriface's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Medical trauma, Death of parent

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.0

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Group of lonely misfits turned found family waged war against loneliness and Hubert Bird comes to grips with his past. I really enjoyed the beginning half of the book, but the ending fell a little flat for me. The main conflict of the book was not exactly resolved, it was sort of dissolved, which meant there was no payoff for the tension, which didn’t work for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dementia, Death of parent, Classism

Minor: Fatphobia

leanneymu's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-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

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A gentle, sweet book, that went to some surprisingly dark places, but was ultimately very uplifting. Just what I needed after reading a few hard-hittin  recently.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Racism, Suicide, Xenophobia, Vomit, Death of parent

spaghettireads's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racism, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident

Minor: Infertility

abominablesnowaro's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Dementia, Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol

enneirda07's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-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

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Loved this book. First time reading this author but definitely not my last. Made my cry ( and books never make me cry). Excellent narrator

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Death of parent

helena_chris's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective 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

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I cried.

This is without a doubt the most beautiful book I have ever read. It's not even that sad of a book but it was so beautiful and so well-written it made me cry. The spine of the book is even broken from how quickly I finished it. Just, amazing. Would give an infinite amount of stars if I could.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Death of parent

jayjaybraggs's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent

spinesinaline's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was wonderful and also there was no need for it to be so sad

This book is beautiful and heartbreaking, and a lovely portrait of a senior man finding new love for life. It packs a punch but it’s such a beautiful story with so many characters I’d love to know in real life. 

Thanks to Grand Central Pub for a review copy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Dementia, Grief

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy