Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire

17 reviews

schnaucl's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

I liked Harry and Melanie but this didn't feel as strong as Middlegame. 

The ending felt weak.  The labyrinth felt rushed and the confrontations with Aven in particular felt anticlimactic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

milliemudd's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Violence, and Terminal illness

bloodmaarked's review

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

3.5

this was not on the same level as middlegame, sorry

✧ full review on my tumblr ✧

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Colonisation, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Vomit

silvernfire's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Terminal illness

Moderate: Murder, Death of parent, and Torture

Minor: Confinement

strickortreat's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

As a book on its own, this is so good! McGuire comes up with some of the funkiest ideas I've read in a while and I love it. I read Middlegame first, though, and as a follow up to that book it's a little disappointing. Definitely didn't like it as much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Terminal illness, Medical content, and Chronic illness

traa's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Colonisation, Deadnaming, Grief, Pregnancy, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Blood, Torture, and Suicide

Minor: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Vomit, and Ableism

yellow_ylugbug's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood, Body horror, Death, Murder, Medical content, and Terminal illness

dreamofbookspines's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective slow-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? No

5.0

A slow-burn read, best read following Middlegame. Roger and Dodger are no longer the main characters - they're too busy making the rest of the universe go 'round - but they do make an appearance. Melanie and Harry play off each other well, each supporting and strengthening the other. 

I do think it's slightly weird that McGuire wrote an entire other series under a pen name, then quotes it throughout.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Terminal illness

jazhandz's review against another edition

DNF at 32%. If I had to read one more sentence about how these kids just can’t believe what’s happening, none of this makes sense, wow what even is this, then I was going to throw my phone out a window. The quality of writing was significantly worse here than in Middlegame, the pacing was excruciating, and the exposition was horrific.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Death

Minor: Ableism and Misogyny

never's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent