Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering

11 reviews

acresofclams's review against another edition

dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Infidelity

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Cancer

brivnnv's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Not great,  but not bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, and Alcoholism

maggies's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Four stars because it was a good audiobook distraction during work. But it was about 30% longer than it needed to be, unfortunately. Hard to review without being spoiler-y, so here it is:

The twists (if you're paying attention, you'll see them coming a mile away) basically stopped halfway through, and then it was just explanation for the last half. Yeah, it was entertaining and I enjoyed seeing the characters change in my estimation over the last half, but it probably didn't need to be as long to get there. Speaking of characters changing, Heather was a completely different person in the last chapter...what the heck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cancer, Bullying, Confinement, and Alcoholism

kaseymkelley's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Child death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Cancer, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Dementia

lindavs22's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Infidelity, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Cancer, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug use

reneeschauer's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Rape and Cancer

vcarella's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Rape, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Cancer

strickortreat's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Two things I'm not a huge fan of in thrillers: an ending where

every single character gets some type of happy ending

and an ending where the moral of the story is spoon-fed to me instead of letting me figure it out myself. This book has both of those things and definitely suffers because of it, but on the whole it was still a pretty decent read and I was interested in the story the whole way through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Bullying, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, and Emotional abuse

that_bookish_life's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer and Death of parent

kamin8882's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

omg this book was insane and soooo good !! I have been having a hard time finding a thriller that actually kept me on my toes and made me surprised and sooo invested and this did that. 

In this books there are 3 character POV- Skye, a young book editor who finally has found the man of her dreams and loves her for her, even with her extreme case of OCD. We have Burke, said man of her dreams, but he is married with 3 kids and is secretly plotting to marry Skye only for her money. and we have heather, Burkes wife, who you think is just sitting at home while her husband is out marrying another woman all innocent!! Ohhhh NOO!!! 

wow does this story has a plot twist and its a freaking good one !!

Although Burke did agree to the plan, Heather is behind all of it-- she got him fired from his job, spent more money so they would be broke, forcing Burke to participate in her plan-- make Skye fall in love with him, agree to marry him and than steal all her money and move far away. What heather doesn't account for is Burke actually falling in love with Skye and realizing what a psycho Heather is.

 

This book was definitely thrilling. I hated the characters, loved them, despised them, cared for them... I am still thinking about this story and wanting to know what happens next!! If you love domestic thrillers and some insane twists, read this book !! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer and Stalking