Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder

66 reviews

library_kb's review

challenging emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

This graphic novel strikes just the right balance between being heartfelt and emotional but also lighthearted and hopeful. It so accurately depicts the mixed emotions that come with death of a family member and what it is like to go through the grieving process. It is never kitschy or trying to hard, but is honest and funny in some places. Highly recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Cancer

daniellekat's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

3.25

This was good but not great. It very much felt like a grief project for the author which is powerful in its own way, but missed the mark for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

aimzthereader's review

dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

This book is perfect. It’s raw and well done. For someone to write a graphic memoir about losing your mom and just encapsulating grief perfectly while telling their story, it’s just so well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Medical trauma, Grief, Death, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

vanesst's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Cancer

neilpbardhan's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Cancer

Minor: Body shaming

kyriannaj's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Death, Grief, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Body shaming

thewordsdevourer's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

dancing at the pity party sees feder simply excels not only in making readers care abt her mum w/in only a few pgs, but also masterfully evokes the pain and struggles that such a monumental loss creates.

feder's reflection, feelings, emotions and sentiment following her mum's diagnosis and subsequent death sting w/ their strange yet recognizable familiarity abt loss, despair, the neverending wrangling of being ok yet forever changed and the constant, low thrumming state of living w/ such a loss. rarely has a book made me feel and reflect so deeply abt loss, in all its messy, complicated reckoning. one thing that differentiates this book from so many others that share the same subject matter, however, is how it uses humor w/ abandon, to cope and foreshadow and reflect, and i rly enjoy this aspect and how familiar it is.

the art complements the story and never distracts, and at times utilized to great effect to portray important scenes and evoke emotions. in fact i quite admire how the simple art is able to make me feel so much, such a good blend of story and art this book has.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content and Terminal illness

ceemahoney93's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

iris_garden's review

emotional funny fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Cancer

bettyemanee's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Lovely book about going through loss of a parent at a young age. When Rhonda died, I felt so sad even though I barely know her😅😅

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Cancer