Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

17 reviews

penguinsquack's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

3.0

Almost any other character would have made a better narrator for this story, but at least this way we got lesbians 🤷🏽

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Death

Minor: Homophobia, Chronic illness, Lesbophobia, and Racism

paladinosaur's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.25

If you’re in the mood for some very gay, gothic vampire literature I can’t recommend Carmilla enough. Its a good length little novella, only took me a little over an hour. It’s also available for free on Project Gutenberg so…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Chronic illness

Minor: Gore, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, and Medical content

amalyndb's review against another edition

dark

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, and Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual assault

Minor: Racism

rlyne's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Death

ktrecs's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Blood, and Homophobia

bookflix's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Murder, Death, and Blood

Minor: Racism

knightbirds's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Death and Death of parent