Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

72 reviews

melaschnie'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

zonnestraal's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad 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

3.75

It was a good book. I liked 'The Charm offensive' a tad bit more though. This book does give a good reflection on how it is to say goodbye to someone, the exhausting process of dying. I need to applaud it for that. Honestly Logan and Rosemary were a little bit annoying at times, but I guess that means they were realistically written, because there is no human on this earth who is never annoying. I cried. It was beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Excrement

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

amandaevans's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

lesbian love story? romantic comedy? summer road trip? yes yes and yes. this book is sweet and sad, funny and heartbreaking. a story about love and loss, family trauma, mental health struggles, and of course, existing as queer in spaces where it sometimes isn’t normalized or accepted. I laughed while reading this book. I definitely cried so many tears while reading this book. I felt seen while reading this book. If you’re looking for an LGBTQ+ love story perfect for the summertime, this is it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Alcohol

cmhall's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Eating disorder, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

mamaewalk's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Excrement, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

spaghettireads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism and Abandonment

lyssamo's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

4.5

Super cheesy by times, frustratingly slow character development but a wonderful read in the end. I cried for the last 25-30% of the book, a mix of sad and happy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction

maddiereadswords's review against another edition

4.0

Listen, this book was brilliant and wonderful and heartrendingly beautiful, but also I absolutely never want to read it again ever in my life, thanks so much for understanding <3

Ok, but for real though, I loved the Odyssey of it all, and I fell in love with all three of the main characters, especially Logan and Rosemary. Their POVs and voices were always different enough that it was easy to tell who was narrating any given part. I will say, though, POV switches in the middle of chapters remain one of my most hated things, and I also have to take points off for the whole bit where the characters use famous queer people's names as expletives; it was fun at first, but the joke got old really fast. Overall though, I thoroughly enjoyed most of this book. The romance was so well-done, and it felt very earned by the end, and this is very much one of those books where even though you know how it ends, the journey was absolutely worth it. (And I LOVED how they found little pockets of queer community and belonging in places they didn't expect!!)

But that ending though...I won't spoil it, but if you read the summary then yeah you can guess what's gonna happen, and oh boy I was not expecting it to hit me as hard as it did. I was not in as good of a headspace for this as I thought I was going in, so I'll fully admit I skimmed most of the last few chapters, but it was still such a good story that I can't even knock off points for that. This truly is a rom-com about death, and even though I can't imagine I'll ever pick this book up again of my own free will, I did love the journey it took me on.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

morgsreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

skye_era_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny sad 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

4.0

Did I ugly cry several times? Absolutely. But did I cringe A LOT? Also yes unfortunately.
Things I liked: the relationship building between all of the characters, the reconnections made, the raw emotions, Rosemary 🥰😍, Joe, and Remy’s characters, Logan’s development at the end of the book
Things I did not like: Logan for the first 75% of the book, the cringey use of any queer celebrity’s name (ex: Lady fucking Gaga) when Logan was really saying what the fuck, the sheer amount of poop references and talk of adult diapers I KNOW that’s part of taking care of an older sick adult but my stomach could not handle that. *if you have a weak stomach when it comes to talking about diarrhea do not read this book LMAO*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Terminal illness, and Excrement

Moderate: Medical content and Grief