Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Raparigas Selvagens by Rory Power

65 reviews

sylvestra's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Gore, Animal death, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Medical content and Suicide

octopus_farmer's review against another edition

Was a bit too much body horror for me and when i read other reviews, it seemed my questions wouldn’t be answered. The MC’s eye and its growth got me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, and Chronic illness

atrkula's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Suicide, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

livcbrown's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Violence, and Medical content

nicole134340's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

DESPISE endings like these

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Gore, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Vomit

manderkay's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Chronic illness, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Vomit

katielaine_w's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

moonlightmelody's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book, despite being medium-paced, kept me hooked to the end, especially the last quarter of the book. I'm almost lost on how to fully review the book because I really enjoyed it. At the same time, it feels like something got cut off at the end. Like the book ends and it makes sense, but it feels like there is more story to tell, or that something was removed from the final draft. I don't know, but it's confusing. I DID enjoy it but I'm left wanting more; not in the way where a book ends in an ambiguous way, but like pages were ripped out and I'll never really get to know what happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

This book has almost all dark shit, except homophobia, racism, and transphobia. So be warned I guess? It's nothing unexpected from the description, but just in case you weren't sure.

onespicyrat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Chronic illness, and Self harm

maddy_s's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Child death, Self harm, and Suicide

Minor: Cursing, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship