Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

78 reviews

katiemack's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Child death, and Dementia

melancholymegs's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Grief

ispeakpurple's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Terminal illness, Grief, and Dementia

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

blueyogi's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Grief

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, Child death, Vomit, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

ccassidy98's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Terminal illness, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, and Dementia

Minor: Pregnancy

markedwithanm's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Child death, Death, and Pregnancy

sandysmith's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

What a ride such an amazing book, that has you riding waves of emotion, sad yes, but it is so much more than this, funny, thought-provoking, joyful, It's a full range of emotions. Lenni is 17 and has a life limiting condition, meets 83 year old Margot in hospital. They bond over art therapy and agree to paint their lives in one hundred years of their memories. The relationships are beautifully written and created, written from two viewpoints, whilst obviously most of flash backs belong to Margot, Lenni, and her views on life grabs you. Her relationships with others are also wonderfully written, and I could help but fall in love with both Lenni and Margot but the other characters, too, especially Father Arthur, the new nurse, and the tattooed porter and a few chickens. "Do you know, she said slowly, that the stars we see closest are already dead? Well that's depressing, I took my hand from hers. No, she said gently linking her arm through mine. It's not depressing, it's beautiful. They've been gone for who knows how long, but we can still see them. They live on.they live on". There is loads to consider and reflect on. My favourite type of book is one that makes you think and this book will stay with me for some time. Its brilliant just brilliant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, and Death

marigold82's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

The beginning of this book is slow. I started and put this book down dozens of times. Do yourself a favor and keep reading!! It is a beautiful story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

stephjoanne's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

tahdens's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

The second half of the book was so much more engaging than the first half of the book, which just confirmed my dislike for terminal-illness tropes in books because clearly everyone know what's going to happen, and I found Lenni annoying. And Margot's chapters was definitely more interesting than Lenni's or whatever was happening in the present.

But with Margot revealing herself to be the bisexual grandma I never knew I needed, the story did pick up a bit. Although I didn't understand how Margot supposedly had all this artistic talent with actual technique to back it up when in her story it looked like she never had any artistic training, and why, as a self-actualized bisexual, she was still afraid to come out to a teenager in 2015.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness