Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

37 reviews

smithreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Medical content, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Antisemitism, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

garliclimewithhoney's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Antisemitism, Chronic illness, and Cursing

Minor: Toxic relationship and Cursing

abnormalbubblegumman's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

PET SEMATARY
WRITER:Stephen King
PUBLISHING DATE:November 14th, 1983
PUBLISHER:Doubleday (original)/Circulo do Livro (Version Read)
SCORE:9.4
An absolute masterpiece by Stephen King. I pretty liked everything on it, the atmosphere is amazing, the characters are really likeable, well most of them (fuck you Irwin Goodman), the horror is very well done, being a very intense and spine-chilling story, which is an amazing take on death and mortality in general, i also like the edition, the simple prose and style of Stephen King works very well in this book’s favor, translating into a much more human, credible narrative, than it would be if it used a more labored style of writing. It’s not perfect, only god is if he even exists. The story is a little too slow in the beginning, and this may cause some impatient people to really give up on this book, but don’t do it, it’s amazing, and if you want a scary, spine-chilling story with some really poignant and hard-hitting moments, without being too tryhard and too complicated. This novel is for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Child death

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Drug use

saskia6's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

i have no words honestly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Violence, Cannibalism, Cursing, and Suicidal thoughts

domi13's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

A very disturbing story that is a must-read for horror lovers. It is heavy and deals with topics such as death, trauma, madness, hard choices... But in such a gripping way that you just have to sit down and get along with it until the end. And just when you think it cannot get more horrifying it does. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Gore and Terminal illness

paulrichard's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death

Moderate: Racial slurs and Terminal illness

ahh_listen's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Alcohol

ripxw's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual content and Medical content

chloseencounter's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Pet Semetery may be the scariest book by King I’ve read so far and it’s definitely the best one I’ve read since The Shining. I think often King’s novels are like the longest build up ever to the world’s saddest orgasm but I actually felt that the pay off was worth it in this novel. I’ll also say that this was some very strong character writing but despite that maybe only two characters were actually likable, though I do at least think the mental decline in Louis over time is articulated well. I was also slightly put off by the completely out of place sex scenes that added literally nothing to the story but King is nothing if not horny. Even though I love to complain about King’s books I really did enjoy this one and would actually recommend it to people especially if you’re new to King or horror in general. I still think it could’ve been edited so much shorter but for the most part it felt more evenly paced than other King novels and I wasn’t often bored. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Child death, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Blood

Minor: Chronic illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, Grief, and Mental illness

zaraha's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Terminal illness, Child death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal death