Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Mañana, y mañana, y mañana by Gabrielle Zevin

446 reviews

maddielags's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

2.0

I don’t really understand the hype around this book 🙈 Don’t get me wrong, a couple parts did catch my attention

like Sadie’s pregnancy and Marx’s death

but I really struggled with the overall story and keeping me engaged. I understand the message but the writing style wasn’t for me personally. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Gore, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use and Vomit

eedle_cacleberry's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Mass/school shootings, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit, Antisemitism, Abortion, and Classism

greta_mal's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

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

1.5

It actually took me 10 months to read it (I started reading it back in October '23), because it was so boring and I did not like any of the characters and I literally couldn't have cared less if they succeeded in their game making, found love, or died. 

Honestly I'm just glad to finally be done with this, because one thing I can't bring myself to do is to DNF a book no matter how much I'm not vibing with it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Drug use and Vomit

kjlewis494's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, Vomit, and Abortion

logsbooklog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

usually, once a book fumbles hard enough, it loses me entirely and i’m taken out of it for the remainder. and this book DID lose me; an entire section of the book made me feel like i had been duped by the author into reading a much worse book than what the book had been up to that point (more on this in spoilers). but it brought me back from the brink in a way few books can by just being masterful at catharsis. even when the setup was rocky and even when the book is a bit in over its head, the pay offs hit like gut punch after gut punch of emotional release. despite its stumbles, i’m very glad i saw this through.

as for where the book lost me, there were 2 key moments that took me out entirely. one, sam being in love with sadie. i don’t think this is unrealistic, but it felt handled with the weight of a teen drama, not an adult literary novel. what had been a delicate balance of a friendship ends up heavily tilted in sadie’s favor for a while and it took over a hundred pages for that scale to even back out. secondly, of course, is the handling of the office shooting and marx’s death. now, this is a book filled with coincidence and happenstance, but this death felt so unbelievably staged as a third act conflict that i audibly yelled “oh COME ON” when marx’s mom was ALSO named anna lee. this entire section of the book has the suspension of disbelief shatter from showing way too much of what’s behind the curtain and i was extremely worried the book wouldn’t recover. it did manage to survive both of these missteps, but i can’t help but wonder what could have been

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Moderate: Homophobia and Vomit

Minor: Abortion

natalienance's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Car accident

stutzmaa14's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

nataliegray's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Vomit, and Grief

avalete's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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

0.25

This book was genuinely awful. The writing is horrid, the characters are insufferable, and I don’t even think there’s a plot? There’s supposed to be a conflict between the main two characters, but they really don’t seem like they like each other. At all. Their problems don’t feel resolved.

I also don’t agree with the author’s views and wasn’t aware of them until I finished the book. I regret reading this book for so many reasons. I wish I could give it an even lower rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

lordcafeine's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexism, and Vomit

Minor: Terminal illness