Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

164 reviews

bookworm247's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

e_claire's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Misogyny, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Homophobia

sarahcerdena's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Misogyny

Moderate: Death of parent and Abandonment

black_cat_iiix's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

readswithcocktails's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Cancer, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Abandonment

ofpagesandparagraphs's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Homophobia, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

sarahreadsromance's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I felt the purpose of this book got muddled along the way.  It was very slow-paced.  I appreciated the complexity of the relationships, but there were a lot of loose ends that didn’t tie off, in my opinion.  Maybe that was the point.  The sentimentality at the end redeemed the rest of the book for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Cancer and Death of parent

okaylauren's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Misogyny

Moderate: Cancer and Child abuse

cadence99's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

While the initial premise drew me in, this book really failed to deliver for me on multiple levels.

The metaphor was MUDDY to say the least. It felt like a clown car of a literary device, and left me feeling like NONE of the intended meanings ended up properly conveyed.

The writing, while attempting to address issues of gender discrimination in 1950s and 60s America, made little to no attempt to take an intersectional view of feminism

In addition, the world building felt painfully inconsistent. The internal logic left much to be desired in more ways then one. I would not recommend this book.


2 ⭐️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Misogyny, and Fire/Fire injury

helenferg's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexism, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy