Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

57 reviews

agiangregorio's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Abandonment

eegbert's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Medical content, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy

daisy2050's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Medical content, Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Grief, Stalking, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

allthetrees's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Glad it had a happy ending for Demon and Angus. I would have been devastated otherwise.

I interestingly had conflicted feelings about the style of the writing - as someone who has grammar rules drilled into me in English classes, yet speaking with a southern mountain dialect. Took a bit to get used to, but it gave authenticity to Demon. I enjoyed seeing some of my favorite sayings in a novel, like "built like a brick shithouse".

Too much reality in the book, it was a heavy read for a fictional story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Trafficking, Car accident, Pandemic/Epidemic

mizconnell's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

melonball6's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-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

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This may be the best book I've ever read and the writer is incredible. This story is everything and so real.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Abortion, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

swagbasher587's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent

Moderate: Miscarriage, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship

Minor: Car accident, Pregnancy

liza1211's review against another edition

1.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy

hannahsheil's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

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Devastatingly heartbreaking, painful, and raw, but so important and real. Demon can be frustrating because you want to root for him to make the right decisions, but you’re also able to understand why he consistently runs away; when your whole life has been continuous disappointments and people leaving, no where feels safe. The opioid epidemic — and all the drug use in general — is also weaved in so naturally, and it’s eye-opening to see how when something is a fact-of-life, it becomes natural to just do it. 

Altogether Barbara Kingsolver does an amazing job at giving voice to a population of young people who have been forgotten or mocked by larger culture & society. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Abortion

Minor: Animal death, Gun violence

taylornelms's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism