Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward

13 reviews

mk_meow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.75

2.5🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Sexual content and Cancer

Minor: Infertility, Kidnapping, and Vomit

whiskis's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

Second book in the series, the love i have for Raghe is just so great, i remember how much i loved this book, i've read like 10 times and i'd go again anytime. 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Chronic illness, Infertility, Medical content, Terminal illness, Cursing, Grief, Blood, Death, Medical trauma, and Cancer

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug use

Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

sweetreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

Well, that was laced with crack. So bad yet sooo good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Minor: Slavery and Rape

mrs_gale's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

Continuation from the previous book but we get Rhage and him falling for a human, Mary. It was great! I wasn't sure how it would end, and I thought we'd see the Butch and Marissa story progress. I still find the parts of the story from 'Lesser' POV boring, as I did in the first book. I do like the "new" characters introduced, John and Bella, but again I wanted more of their stories too - so onto book 3 for more Bella! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, and Torture

Minor: Drug use, Kidnapping, Animal death, Grief, Medical content, Death, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Death of parent, and Addiction

rachelgreenreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

This was really enjoyable. 
I liked the development of Rhage’s relationship to his curse throughout the book. I was once again pleasantly surprised by the author’s portrayal of disability and illness (in this case the FMC’s stuggle with Leukemia). Although she was magically cured at the end, which I have complicated feelings about, I though the portrayal of illness and survivorship was pretty solid. 

Occasionally I would feel the tension was getting too… tense, only to have the author present a breakthrough. I also really appreciated Rhage’s emotional expression, especially in response to the FMC being hurtful at times. I feel like too often the FMCs of books like this can be really cruel and the MMCs just tough it out, but Rhage’s responses felt real and accurate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Terminal illness, and Cancer

moodreadererin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, and Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit, Infertility, Slavery, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Stalking

sabrinacamp's review against another edition

dark

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

3.0

 Rhage is a big softie. From taking Mary on very human dates to TGI Fridays to telling her he loves her after a few days, and that he loves her enough for the both of them, I just thought everything he did was totally adorable.

Well, almost everything. Idk how cheating wound up in a romance novel? Nor how they were able to work through it. Also how was this vampire completely in denial about Mary's terminal cancer? All of the other vampires starting with Bella knew it was bad. Honestly this doesn't even feel like romance...it feels like a romantic paranormal fiction novel. Yeah, there is a HEA but I think the romance is the subplot.

I also hate the worldbuilding, like come on, the vampires have to drink blood from other vampires? Their human mate isn't good enough? Then they might have to cheat on their mate because sometimes it gets a little sexy? That was so horrible to read, just like all of the boring action scenes/ anything having to do with the slayers. And how are these big tough vampire warrior brotherhood types so vulnerable to everything including the police showing up to crime scenes and bullets? And why the ugly leather trench coats? Ewww.

All of that being said, this book got me out of a reading slump AND made me want to read Bella and Zsadist's book. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer and Terminal illness

pvbobrien's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Blood, Cursing, Grief, Medical content, Sexual assault, Body horror, Cancer, Gun violence, Infertility, and Infidelity

Minor: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Torture, Vomit, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

kaadee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

100x better than the last book!!! I was genuinely surprised at this because I thought it was going to be another bland, boring book. No, it’s not.

I loved that Mary was human! It made her so intriguing and her emotions with Rhage were so different. It took like 200 pages for them to officially hook up and that’s the best thing. Tension. There was absolutely no tension in the last book whatsoever. 
Anyway. Mary is an amazing character. She has so much more depth than Beth had. Rhage is probably my favorite out of all the brothers but we will see I guess.

I’m excited for the Zsadist storyline because he’s very intriguing. They set up Bella and his story throughout this book and I can’t wait to see it flourish in the next. I. Cant. Wait. 

There are the same problems I had last time like the writing style and the amount of misogyny. I had to tell myself it was just a guilty pleasure series and to just enjoy it. I’m trying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Kidnapping

kalira's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Cancer, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Infertility, Kidnapping, Grief, and Alcohol