Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

The Yield by Tara June Winch

4 reviews

neonskylite's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Discovered when reading this that my Aboriginal friend is distantly related to Stan Grant

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Racism

Moderate: Child abuse, Cancer, Sexual assault, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, and Terminal illness

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.75

This book was very very good. It took me a while to get into it at first, but that was more to do with how I was reading it than the book itself. I love how this story is told, and feel like it's really valuable for anyone to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Slavery, Eating disorder, and Genocide

Moderate: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Rape, Blood, Murder, Terminal illness, Gun violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Child death, Alcoholism, and Cancer

Minor: Animal death, Suicide, Ableism, Vomit, and War

chazaiya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

a 3-3.5 star first half and a 4.5-5 star second half. love its use of narrative perspective, love poppy, took a bit to warm up to august but once i reached that halfway point i was just as invested in her story as any other.

even managed to make white man greenleaf likable considering what he did.

winch was on fire in the final stages of the book, it's like you could see everything crumbling, like you could feel her rage on the paper. brilliant novel. deserves a re-read, maybe i'll like the first half more on 2nd read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Kidnapping, and Child death

Minor: Cancer and Alcoholism

miaj_99's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Racism, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Death, Child abuse, and Child death

Minor: Cancer