Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

172 reviews

lili93's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Mental illness, Dementia

lucys_library's review against another edition

2.0

mysterious sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

kotsiubynsky's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Bawled my eyes out. Never saw that coming. Throughout the reading you have a feeling that somthing (or everything) is wrong, but you never know exactly what for sure. Until you do. Beautiful book. Will definitely reread it someday (when I'm healed).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Death, Blood, Grief

Minor: Racism, Dementia

nicoleanaisx's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Found it hard to empathise and relate to any of the characters. It was only in the last part that the story came together and I could piece things together, which is why it upped a star, but I usually like being captivated all the way through and this didn’t do it for me. Glad I read it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Self harm, Grief

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Dementia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

becca_w_'s review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, Toxic relationship

farren_doubell's review against another edition

5.0

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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oh it's so sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racism, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Self harm, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse, Dementia, Religious bigotry

mtrout's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racial slurs

Moderate: Violence, Abandonment

Minor: Dementia

emmichen's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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i liked the writing of the book because it was very poetic at first, but after a while it got kind of confusing and i forgot what happened when i stopped reading. my biggest problem with this book was that the characters weren’t likeable to me, because i didn’t really get to know know them. the author described their personalities a lot, but failed to truly show them through their actions. also, i didn’t really like the main character.. i thought it was really interesting how she gave away all her stuff, but lockhart didn’t get into depth enough of why she was doing it (a little, but not enough). the aunts were always fighting, but there was no internal conflict, no explanation of their feelings. it was all out of cady’s perspective and she failed to understand anyone else’s emotions but her own. 
due to all of this, the ending was not really meaningful. it was obviously shocking and sad, but it seemed very shallow because of the way i perceived the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

Minor: Drug use

abby_griesmar's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Racism, Dementia, Classism

michelle9_433's review against another edition

3.25

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Rape, Vomit, Dementia