Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

4 reviews

lancemama's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Cancer, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Body horror, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Murder, Xenophobia, and Grief

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death of parent, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Grief, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Car accident, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, War, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

kris_t97's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Interesting and scary set of short stories. Each stood out on their own, and most felt eerie real like the potential for it to happen wasn't impossible. This added to the horror factor.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Gore, and Police brutality

alyson's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

snapshot - 2.5/5
loaded - 5/5
aloft - 3.5/5
rain - didn’t finish 

loaded was so phenomenal it ruined the rest of the book for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Gun violence, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Dementia, and Excrement