Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

87 reviews

lovetlr's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death and Child death

haleymourer's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

Cheesy. Like written in 2013. One of the few books to make me cry my eyes out. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Child death

reka111's review against another edition

How can a book be written so badly? 
So boring and meaningless that it's unbelievable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Chronic illness, and Cancer

gracieb0bell_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

3.5

a book that means a lot to me, but quite mid

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness and Terminal illness

Minor: Gore

lots of mentions of different kinds of cancer/illnesses

nick13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? No

5.0

It's strange, I'm not a very emotional person and when thinking back on this story it feels like I shouldn't have enjoyed it whatsoever. But somehow I absolutely loved this novel (It even had to choke back some tears!). 

This novel is just so much of everything I love in a story, it had people going through very rough times yet still able to have humor, it had great writing, all of the characters were good and human, and overall the story was just so good.  Even some scenes that can be seen as a little bit cheesy -

The whole clapping scene at Anne Frank's house

- I think are actually well put together and if you delve deeper into the writing make sense. 

There isn't one thing that I can point at to show it's a good story like I can with other books, this one has a bit of everything which makes sense as to why it was a massive hit. And, well, it deserves every bit of its success. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Death, Child death, and Alcoholism

roaze's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

sk_09's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Alcoholism

andriaspyrou's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cursing, Death, Grief, Cancer, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Drug use

Moderate: Vomit, Alcoholism, and Child death

kew16's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

mermaidstears's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Death