Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

6 reviews

isabell's review

challenging hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit, Dementia, Rape, and Cursing

stephcooke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Death of parent

Minor: Dementia, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

theonlybaillie's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Child abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Cursing, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

gabgeh's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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

1.5

I would not recommend this book if high-quality writing is a priority for you. A somewhat cute, sad, self-insert story with very few character motivators and very little plot development. Tolerable only because I was reading it for a book club and would be able to trash-talk it after reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Dementia, and Drug use

annaledbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Cancer, and Dementia

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

Almost up to the ending of this novel, I thought I was going to hate the book. The events in the last few chapters were incredibly upsetting and made me feel really badly for the main character, April. I thought the book was going to have a sad ending and I loved April so much that I didn’t want that for her. However, the ending is the most perfect ending that could exist for this book. I cried, I laughed — I thought about my own life and the people that I have kept and those who I’ve had to let go. The reasons that we choose people to be in our lives has a lot to do with how we feel our family is supposed to be. Family is not who is related to you by blood, but it’s those people who come into your life and are unwilling to leave you, even when life gets messy, as it undoubtedly will. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Grief, Outing, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship