Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Lopussa molemmat kuolevat by Adam Silvera

85 reviews

jselliot's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

Much like how John Green's The Fault in Our Stars hit me hard because I read it with my mom while she was battling brain cancer, this one is a doozy. But at the same time, it's just such a good book. It almost made me cry twice, and finally succeeded at the end, even knowing what was coming.

The premise of They Both Die at the End is simple, and exactly what it says on the tin. People find out that they're going to die the day of, around midnight through the service of a scifi-flavored company by the name of Death-Cast. There is no last-minute, last-ditch miracle. But the focus is entirely on their journey, on how much living they can pack into their last day. And they do that in spades, even finding love despite their loneliness and insecurities. The ending is still a gut punch, and this book is worth reading. I fully recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

3miily's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• 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

3.25

i liked this book i read it in an entire day, i must say though i was expecting more based on the amount of exposure it got from tiktok. the ending was fast and quite underwhelming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence

justmeandmybooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, Gun violence, and Car accident

Minor: Terminal illness, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

packedjam's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

3.75

They Both Die at the End is a masterclass in world building and detail work, and the format really, really works. definitely not a lighthearted book by any means (shocking, i know, for a book with this title), but there’s a lot of joy and life packed into these pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Minor: Racism, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

sj_booksgram's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I liked this book but after a while it seemed to just drag itself along and I wasn't really invested in the characters as much as I'd wished I was.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and Violence

ri_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

Great book with some fantastic plot twists!! Amazing tiny little parts that are recognised and mean something towards the end!! A great read and very enticing only took me 2 days as I was so eager!!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Animal death, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

saraellenme's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-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? No

5.0

This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I experienced every emotion while reading it. I was hesitant to read it given the title, but I can’t recommend this one enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Police brutality, and Murder

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.0

The ending had me in pieces. Why wasn’t Mateo there to hold him BACK!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Dementia, Terminal illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gun violence, Death, Cursing, Child death, Car accident, and Abandonment

spacegecko's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

3.75

This book made me ugly cry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, and Gun violence

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

rayne_1906's review against another edition

dark fast-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

3.25

2 hours 36 minutes - I didn’t love this book the way I hoped to. To be quite honest, I never really connected with either Mateo or Rufus and I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe their characters weren’t fleshed out enough, I don’t know. I did begin to enjoy the story more and more as I read it though, and I found the ending quite sad, and the last line quite poignant. However, I felt a lot of it felt flat, the emotional, meaningful things that the characters did didn’t feel all that emotional to me as the reader. I feel this book would have been better if it wasn’t so fast paced. I would have loved to have gotten to know the characters more than I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Terminal illness, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, and Violence