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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce

12 reviews

obi_wan_kenobook's review against another edition

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

3.5

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clotalksbooks's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

A touching exploration of love in all its forms. It shows a series of meetings and partings. It expresses how beauty can be found in the small, quiet things. This book is just beautiful and poignant. I couldn't stop the tears from flowing. 
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lovemybulldog73's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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himpersonal's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Recommend only reading this book IF you need to be sad. It is a story of unrequited love by a very sad woman for an even sadder man. It's a pretty realistic story in many ways: what we might think about as we are dying, what we feel compelled to do because we are dying, regrets we need to reconcile, etc. as well as the ugly truth of what hurtful behaviors certain mental illnesses might trigger, how we never actually know what's going on in someone else's life and should never assume, and the difference in reality between what you think is happening versus what it actually looks like to the rest of the world.

I was already sad today, so this was the perfect book for my mood. There's one more in the series. Let's see if that one is any more uplifting, given how underwhelming the first one was and how sad this one was.
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kate59421's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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hathsch's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.0

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thepacifictourist's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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finoa's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

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misskatz's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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rchains's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced
  • 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? Yes

3.5

I appreciate the way the story is crafted and the device of the letter being written, as well as the
twists at the end.
Also the portrayal of hospice and Queenie’s experiences offered an earnest glimpse into a stage of life that is not so often written about, particularly not from the first person. But the overarching focus
(Queenie being in love with Harold Fry for so very, very long)
was a bit much; I would have appreciated a more varied story of her life that didn’t seem to entirely revolve around
those unrequited feelings
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