Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Et ils meurent tous les deux à la fin by Adam Silvera

84 reviews

3miily's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-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

3.25

i liked this book i read it in an entire day, i must say though i was expecting more based on the amount of exposure it got from tiktok. the ending was fast and quite underwhelming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence

justmeandmybooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, Gun violence, and Car accident

Minor: Terminal illness, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

packedjam's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

3.75

They Both Die at the End is a masterclass in world building and detail work, and the format really, really works. definitely not a lighthearted book by any means (shocking, i know, for a book with this title), but there’s a lot of joy and life packed into these pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Minor: Racism, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

sj_booksgram's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I liked this book but after a while it seemed to just drag itself along and I wasn't really invested in the characters as much as I'd wished I was.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and Violence

ri_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

Great book with some fantastic plot twists!! Amazing tiny little parts that are recognised and mean something towards the end!! A great read and very enticing only took me 2 days as I was so eager!!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Animal death, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

saraellenme's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-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

This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I experienced every emotion while reading it. I was hesitant to read it given the title, but I can’t recommend this one enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Police brutality, and Murder

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

The ending had me in pieces. Why wasn’t Mateo there to hold him BACK!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Dementia, Terminal illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gun violence, Death, Cursing, Child death, Car accident, and Abandonment

spacegecko's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

3.75

This book made me ugly cry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, and Gun violence

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

rayne_1906's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.25

2 hours 36 minutes - I didn’t love this book the way I hoped to. To be quite honest, I never really connected with either Mateo or Rufus and I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe their characters weren’t fleshed out enough, I don’t know. I did begin to enjoy the story more and more as I read it though, and I found the ending quite sad, and the last line quite poignant. However, I felt a lot of it felt flat, the emotional, meaningful things that the characters did didn’t feel all that emotional to me as the reader. I feel this book would have been better if it wasn’t so fast paced. I would have loved to have gotten to know the characters more than I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Terminal illness, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, and Violence

corvidprince's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

2.5

Ugh. I have mixed feelings about this book. 

The story? The story was phenomenal. I could put the book down, I can see why it's so highly recommended... but I also can't. 

I am giving this a 2.5⭐ rating even though the story was good because there's unnecessary and disgusting ableism. This would have been 5⭐ if it wasn't for the ableism.

On two separate occasions I (a disabled person) found myself disgusted with this book. The first was a POV for one of the death-cast employees. This death-cast employee talks about not caring about deckers and dehumanizing them. The author introduced her as a cane user for the sole intention of making her appear bitter. 

The second occasion was so much worse. The author introduces another POV of a character with muscular dystrophy who [TW: terrorist attack] *blows up a building killing countless people with no remorse out of anger at his disability* This is horrendous, and unacceptable. I cannot rate a book 5⭐, no matter how good the story was, when the author needlessly portrays disabled people like me as *terrorists* because of our disability. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Terminal illness

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