Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

4 reviews

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Violence, Gore, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Pregnancy, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

judassilver's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Cultural appropriation, Gore, and Racism

Minor: Cancer, Child death, and Colonisation

minimicropup's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Was caught up in the story and the creepy things happening to and stalking the main characters. Appreciated the author’s note at the end for context on the Indigenous rep and inspiration in this book. Took off half a star because the family secret and denial that was hidden from Faye (and maybe both sisters?) was kind of confusing to me.

after finding out about the death of her brother, I expected the family to have kept it so secret because Faye accidentally caused it when she was 5 (like she hit her mom or her mom had to save her and in the process lost him).

The reason for her parents and sister continuing to keep it secret from Faye even as an adult while her life was unravelling because of it and it was clearly causing her mental anguish didn’t make sense for me and that brought me out of the book a bit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Miscarriage

Minor: Cancer

shae125's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Cancer, and Child death