Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Flock by Kate Stewart

30 reviews

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Mysterious. Spicy. Sweet. I liked this little coming of age non-traditional romance book. Can’t wait to start book two because the end of this one was a crazy cliffhanger. I love both the male protagonists, even though I know I shouldn’t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cancer, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

sienasummerrreads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I don’t really know what to say. I enjoyed it but you don’t learn any of the cryptic information until the last two chapters. I was trying to find the plot to answer what was going on. I was so infuriated with the book that I wanted to know the answer which pushed me to keep going. 

I still overall enjoyed this book but I wanted answers… also the cliffhanger lucky I have the second book! 

If you love: 

🔹Brotherhood 

🔹MFM

🔹Estranged Families 

🔹Secretive & Cryptic  

🔹Mainly Character Driven 

🔹Great Spice 

Genre/Type: Mysterious Romance Suspense 18+

APK: Physical / Audiobook

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟.5

Spice: 🌶️🌶️

Series or Stand Alone: Series - Book 1 in  the Ravenhood Trilogy 

Tropes or Themes: Mysterious, Enemies To Lovers, Workplace, Age Gap, Suspenseful & Cliffhanger 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cancer, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Addiction, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing and Abandonment

chelseylb1988's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Drug use

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Death and Death of parent

emilibrarian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Drug use, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer

jwel5327's review

medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent and Cancer

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

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

3.0

This was an interesting story, but I had no clue what was going on majority of the time. This is a Robinhood retelling. The author seemed to be driving home the fact the the FMC was very young and inexperienced. This was evident with her lack of recognition of the manipulation and gaslighting going on in her relationships with Sean and Dom. These relationships were very toxic and were based on lies/lack of communication. I am hoping book 2 will show some maturity/growth in Cecilia. 

The whole idea of the Ravenhood was very confusing for majority of the book and, due to the POV, the readers only knew what Cecilia did, which wasn't much. Nothing was really revealed until the end of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Drug use, and Misogyny

Minor: Cancer

crinkledmochi's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.0

This book is one huge white savior complex…. 

All the men in this book are just huge red flags walking. The main character is 19 for majority of the book very young compared to the men she’s dating/interacting with. Again she is of ‘legal’ age but it’s still very weird. Plus there’s also a relationship hinted between these two side characters that is also on the creepy side as well because they grew up seeing this person. 

I feel like the characters in this book try to be woke so bad and just completely miss the mark, and not only is the main character kinda prejudice it just contradicts the whole story’s forced narrative.  The men don’t tell her anything and she follows along like a lost puppy (the irony…). The ending was also lackluster in my opinion and I knew from the beginning what direction this would probably go and the execution was not good. 

One thing however that I found like-able was the writing style, it felt real and the emotions the characters expressed you could definitely feel from the pages. I definitely feel like the characters in the book could be real life people, everything felt realistic to an extent like people just suck. I wasn’t too sure going into the book if the writing was going to be any good since a lot of booktok recommendations have some of the most illiterate pieces of work I’ve ever read. I was pleasantly surprised. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Car accident

ecravens's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug use, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Death, and Sexual content

lifeofchrstnlvly's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

1.0

I tried to give this book a chance. Really tried since I (painstakingly) finished it. Oversexual, polygamous MC. Girl, it's not love: IT'S CLEARLY LUST. Very morally grey characters (I don't have problems with morally grey characters but this book was just wtf). Cecelia is the dumbest MC I ever read. 

If I have a physical copy of this book, I know I threw this almost every chapter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer

janzenriley's review

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cancer, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship