Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

6 reviews

sarahna's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, and Body horror

irenemarie's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer and Drug use

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

crystalleighwrites's review against another edition

funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Body horror, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Rape, Cancer, Confinement, and Drug use

amanda884's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Ableism

Minor: Fatphobia

bgoodbookclub's review against another edition

This book is a tricky one on audio if you tend to zone out like I do. The book flip flops back and forth between Penny's life and the storyline of Sylvia in Penny's book. The first time it did this, I was like WHAT is going on? I was also really not interested in the plot of the book that Penny wrote so I really wanted to fast forward through those chapters. Because the Penny's book is every other chapter, you're basically reading two books at once which is a lot at once.

I think I've determined that I'm not smart enough to enjoy satirical books. All of the reviews I read either loved or hated the satirical parts and I think they just annoy me. Also basically every character is extremely annoying and unlikeable.

The actual premise of this book is a good idea, I just think it wasn't executed very well.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer

sarahyjackson's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Caustically hilarious satire. I loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Murder, Body horror, and War

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia and Racism