Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander

5 reviews

beccaand's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Body horror, Terminal illness, Violence, Cancer, and Gore

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

thebetterstory's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

A beautiful, angry scream of a book. The prose is unselfconsciously strange and beautiful, with the elephants' perspectives handled with especially gorgeous aplomb.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Terminal illness

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Minor: Misogyny, Death of parent, and Animal death

palomees's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Violence, Body horror, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Cancer

bookwyrmknits's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

2.5

This is a very powerful story, but it is not a happy one nor is it an easy read. I enjoyed very few parts of this book (all the parts I properly enjoyed were the ones narrated by the elephants and telling their stories) — the rest of the book was too raw for me to say I "enjoyed" it. However, it is incredibly well crafted, and it's worth reading for a lesson in how to write a novelette if nothing else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death and Violence

Additional CW:

graphic description of radiation poisoning

bbrown's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness