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iris14's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Child death, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Self harm, Terminal illness, Blood, Bullying, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Rape, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Abandonment
harmonique's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Physical abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Death, Homophobia, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Self harm, Child abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Rape, and Vomit
agiali's review against another edition
5.0
I fell in love with each and every person in this beautifully broken found family.
I bought this book to conquer my own fears regarding my illness and also to see how many tears I could shed within these 400 pages. It's safe to say this book broke me in ways more than one. With Lancali's beautiful prose, I had to stop and stare at what seemed like poetry on the tear-stained pages. I expected to fall in love with the cast, but I didn't expect to fall in love with hope as well.
With a book as beautiful as this one, I don't even know where to begin. We follow Sam, a character who follows death and runs away from love. After Sam witnesses their lover's suicide, they're an empty figure. Sam only opens his heart again for the group of bandits they call friends: Couer, Neo, and Sony. This chaotic group creates a Hit List, a list created to prove they're still full of life, to kill death, disease, and time all at once. As they steal more things, a broken artist named Hikari enters, a perfect resemblance to Sam's lost lover.
This book made me unwell. Not only did the book completely crush my heart for our hospital family, but it also hurt me for the relationships outside of the hospital; The relationships not confined to white walls and broken clocks. With a book as beautiful and heartbreaking as this, I genuinely do not know how I'll go on. I've been on the hunt for another sob-filled read since November 2021, and I definitely just found it.
I found myself on these pages. It hurt to see others go through what I had. It hurt to know that Lancali's heart and soul were poured and ripped out into this novel. This is a story about what most people shy away from. I fell in love with hope is one of my favorite reads of 2022 so far, one of my new favorite books of all time, and one that I will never shut up about.
Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Bullying, Death, and Mental illness
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Rape
glutenfreebread's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Self harm, Death, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Child abuse, and Suicide
Moderate: Rape, Miscarriage, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and Sexual assault
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
lily_sutton's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Suicide, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Death
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Vomit and Rape
boyscoutsreject's review against another edition
- 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
I've seen reviews of people crying throughout the book but for me, it was fast and hard. Cried about 8 times in the last 150 pages. I regret nothing.
I was a bit sceptical about the ending - that plot twist didn't really sit right with me. All the same, it was a beautiful read. In love with the writing style. I read this a lot slower than I normally read because I actually had to take time to think about the deeper meaning of every other sentence.
If nothing else, live out of spite.
normally don't add content warnings but this one really had the need for them. a very loaded book but it deals with all of them well.
Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Homophobia
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Bullying, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Rape, Child death, Car accident, and Abortion
charlotteregan's review
3.75
I did not cry.
The ending wasn’t for me.
I liked it ofc and I’d recommend it. I just don’t f know why I didn’t cry likeee,, 😭😭 What’s wrong with me!?!?!
Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Self harm, Suicide, and Rape
lolajh's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
“People glorify youth. Maybe that’s why [Hikari] strays from hers. They see it as a period of freedom, sex, and stupid decisions. These are the best years of your life. Enjoy them. You’ll be grateful you did. Say that to a child and watch them be reduced to a fruit, ripe, and ready for harvest. You’ll be grateful you did–that is a regretful argument made by those who look in the mirrors and see rot. This is what comes of it. People who don’t believe one could be so numb that even their disease doesn’t hurt enough.”
“So she feels her pain, her loneliness, the excruciating feeling that she is dying, but at once not dying soon enough. She grapples with her guilt and her fear and her love for me. They torture her until she can no longer bear it and must feel the pain with blood. When I stop her, she resents me. She resents me for keeping her alive. Then, it begins again, till all that’s left of her to torture is her mind thinning away with her body.”
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, and Medical content
Moderate: Alcohol and Panic attacks/disorders
annalynn34's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Rape, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Death, Self harm, and Suicide
ellas_escapism's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Child death, Death, and Self harm
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, and Bullying
Minor: Rape, Death of parent, and Car accident