Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

6 reviews

isaarusilor's review

emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Rape, and Child abuse

moniipeters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Homophobia, Racism, Violence, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, Classism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Deadnaming, Deportation, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Rape

bodiesinbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Transphobia, Chronic illness, and Police brutality

cleo_reads's review

5.0

Wow, this is a remarkable debut and also a remarkable book. Also remarkably hopeful and generous for lit fic. 

I found parts of it heavy, both because of all of the content warnings I put below and because it's such an emotionally accurate portrayal of being in your early 20s and wow, can that be hard to read about. But it's ultimately hopeful and uplifting. 

Here's Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya's review, the review that convinced me to give it a try, even though I don't usually like lit fic - https://www.autostraddle.com/all-this-could-be-different-review/

A note for my fellow genre romance readers - this is absolutely not a genre romance - the MC does have a messy, on again, off again relationship but there's no hfn or hea and that felt like the absolutely right choice to me. This is a brilliantly written lit fic, coming of age story and that's what it should be read as.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Mental illness, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Child abuse, Police brutality, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Classism

Minor: Chronic illness and Transphobia

Other warnings: internalized racism, internalized homophobia, maybe some internalized transphobia (it depends on how you interpret one character), depression / anxiety, housing insecurity

bluedilly's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

Moderate: Transphobia, Addiction, Bullying, Deportation, Incest, Medical content, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Fatphobia, and Racism

anapthine's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-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

4.25

 Thank you Net Galley, W&N and Orion Publishing Group for giving me an ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

I loved this book. The writing was just brilliant and I felt so emotionally attached to this book. The characters had so much depth and complexity that you really got to know them and easily saw character development. 

Additionally, the diversity within this book and the stories it told was just beautiful. A South Asian Lesbian protagonist and a gender fluid Black character, with both amazingly written stories which clearly had so much love and care put into the characters to reflect their communities. 

The writing flowed so smoothly, making it very easy to read and keep up with what was going on. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars was because I tend to read books with a bit more action and events happening, but this is such a great book.

I would recommend this book to anyone - I really enjoyed reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Suicide