Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

65 reviews

kayyyqgilbs's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Torture, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Murder, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, and Suicide

ankelsocks's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Oof I really disliked this one. The writing is disjointed and clunky, the characterisation is random, the plot is uninteresting which is interesting giving how fast-paced the novel is. It just couldn't make me care at all. I like the premise, really, hunger games meets greek mythology should be my thang, but the Hunger Games aspect was needlessly brutal (so many incredibly gory deaths, almost all of them completely unable to serve the plot, BIG difference with HG) and the Greek mythology feels forced. I wanted to love this book and instead it annoyed the living daylights out of me. Doesn't help that the main character is a cardboard figure with a lot of rage (or sadness? Or confusion? God I don't know) and a really gruesomely murdered family (stop killing babies guys it's just ... No). I'm glad it's over. Meh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Torture

cgp1234's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Grief, Death of parent, Child death, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Bullying, Sexism, and Cancer

tays_books's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Violence, Murder, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death of parent, Cursing, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child death, and Sexual violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

sjohnson_ty's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

Wow. Wow. Holy shit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Terminal illness, Blood, Torture, Child death, and Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual violence

serotonone's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

2.25

This book is mediocre, at best. 
Would have DNF'd if it wasn't for my buddy read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexism, Terminal illness, Cancer, Gaslighting, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Vomit

hannah_steven's review

adventurous medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Child death, Death, Violence, Gore, Death of parent, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Cancer, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Rape, and Grief

gabriel_r's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Rape and Terminal illness

Minor: Torture

battysbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Blood

librarianlayla's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

4.5 stars.

Dark, fast paced and action packed!

Greek mythology set in the modern world with fantastic storytelling and truly moving Greek tragedy interwoven.

Easy to read and hard to put down this book grips you from start to finish, could easily see this being made into a movie.

Fans of mythology retelling's, strong female characters, dark twists and romantic tension will love this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, Sexual assault, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Terminal illness