Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

53 reviews

jelliestars's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Cancer, Grief, Racism, Toxic relationship, Classism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Rape, Drug use, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, Ableism, Cursing, Vomit, Xenophobia, Body shaming, Stalking, and Sexism

sohma4uesugi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Prose like Proust. You can feel the longing on every page. Part three has some very strange moments that are either over my head or I just do not understand. It’s also the most troublesome, with racist and troublesome notes coming through from outside characters. Part four made my heart ache, but I’m an eternal softy who loves HEA. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, Racism, and Sexual content

luciovalencia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Infidelity

Minor: Terminal illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Antisemitism, and Child death

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.25

The writing was beautiful and atmospheric, and I really liked the last part of the book. Other than that, this book was just... meh. There was a lot of stuff that I found boring, and a lot of stuff that weirded me out. And for the most part, the love story didn't even feel like one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Antisemitism, Child death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Transphobia, Vomit, Cancer, Dementia, Stalking, Biphobia, Cursing, and Excrement

elliehaahr's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Alcohol, and Cancer

paigespages08's review

emotional relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Cancer

Moderate: Vomit

kutreen's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

Very beautifully written, philosophical and sentimental story about what lust and a soul connection between an unlikely (and LGBT+) pair feels like. Especially the first half is quite erotic, sometimes vulgarly so, but in my opinion it doesn't overshadow the other parts and this book is worth reading even if you prefer to skip/skim over those scenes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cancer and Child death

mittymyers's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

This book was a wonderfully poetic read that had the exact feeling of slow molasses summer in a book until you hit the bit where

the TEENAGER starts banging the FULLY GROWN ADULT.  Elio says at one point that he knows nothing (paraphrasing) and that is the only way I could enjoy the rest of this. It was just taking the whole relationship and following story in the context of a teenager romanticising something he truely does not understand.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Cancer

_mariah_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Cancer, and Child death

vanesst's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent, Homophobia, Cancer, Infidelity, Rape, Vomit, Cursing, Drug use, and Death