Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

مكتبة منتصف الليل by محمد الضبع, Matt Haig

68 reviews

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I need my therapist to read this book. Immediately. This was such a wild ride! I feel… so many things. I’m rather speechless honestly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, and Infidelity

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Too straightforwardly corny for me and emotionally manipulative the way it

kills people off in the AUs via butterfly effect.

But the short chapters are like crack for my bad attention span brain, I'll give it that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Infidelity

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, and Pregnancy

tantanluithomas's review against another edition

emotional medium-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

3.0

A novel exploring the heartbreak and disappointment of life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

zarx's review against another edition

reflective medium-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

4.75

So incredibly relatable the way the author details the notion of regret and intertwined that with the idea of multiverses.  I also love that it was tied it to back to idea that "you are where you are meant to be". Sometimes story-telling can cause me to feel disconnected from the character but the way this story is told, its hard not to feel to Nora. You yearn for her to find a life she loves while also reflecting on tour own. The one thing I didn't enjoy was how easily brushed off her very much ongoing struggles with depression were towards the end. It seemed to imply that the author believed it could be cured or at least was cured for the character. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Death of parent

Minor: Car accident and Chronic illness

sophie_kiss's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug use, and Medical content

northernlitreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

It took me a while to get into this book but once I did I couldn’t put it down. I found some of the language and dialogue quite… stiff - that really took me out of the story. I also felt like I was reading a self help book or being lectured at times which I didn’t love, that’s not to say the book didn’t have a good message - it just seemed a too obvious. Despite all that, I laughed and sobbed so Matt Haig clearly did something right!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Terminal illness

lucyselim's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Chronic illness, Drug use, Infidelity, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Cancer

martzi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Grief, and Alcohol

c4rn4ge's review against another edition

hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

To be honest, my favourite part of this book were the last 25 pages~, because this book just dragged on forever.
There's quite a few monologues throughout which feel repetitive as they say the same thing with different wording.

Out of all of the lives Nora lived, the only one I actually enjoyed reading was her life with Ash, and the life she returned to and turned around at the very end. The others felt almost repetitive.

About halfway through this book, I was ready to drop it but decided to power through and finish it. It was definitely a struggle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Animal death

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

dcheers's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Vomit