Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass

5 reviews

centipedes's review

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, and Death

Minor: Cancer

min3's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer

savvylit's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Emma Glass' writing is beautiful and hypnotic. Rest and Be Thankful is a one -sitting novella that provides an intensely upsetting look into the reality of pediatric end of life care. This narrative is so effective and believable that it was no surprise to find out that the story's narrator and Glass herself share a profession. As the novella progresses, the narrator sleeps less and less and is increasingly desperate for a full night's rest. Her insomnia and hallucinations ultimately lend the book's final pages a hellish nightmare quality.

Much like Mieko Kawakami's Heaven, Rest and Be Thankful is an excellent book that put me in a real life depressive funk. I loved it, I hated it, I wouldn't recommend it unless you like books that make you miserable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Infertility, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Child death

sorryviolet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Child death, Death, Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Vomit, Blood, and Terminal illness

angel_kiiss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, and Death