Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

64 reviews

katielaine_w's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

moonlightmelody's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

This book, despite being medium-paced, kept me hooked to the end, especially the last quarter of the book. I'm almost lost on how to fully review the book because I really enjoyed it. At the same time, it feels like something got cut off at the end. Like the book ends and it makes sense, but it feels like there is more story to tell, or that something was removed from the final draft. I don't know, but it's confusing. I DID enjoy it but I'm left wanting more; not in the way where a book ends in an ambiguous way, but like pages were ripped out and I'll never really get to know what happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

This book has almost all dark shit, except homophobia, racism, and transphobia. So be warned I guess? It's nothing unexpected from the description, but just in case you weren't sure.

lil13's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Vomit, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Bullying, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicidal thoughts

aspring's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

bzzyhoney's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts

pluton_bunny's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Terminal illness

rubydagger's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Child death

moabercrombie's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Grief, and Terminal illness

sydneysargentsuperfan's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I only really gave this book points for kind of having a lesbian relationship. This made me remember why I hate books about diseases

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Child death

readingpanda99's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit