Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

20 reviews

d00rframe's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, and Death

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, Body horror, Gore, Alcoholism, Cursing, Ableism, and Bullying

buttermellow's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Child death

Moderate: Grief and Ableism

lucyyaga's review against another edition

challenging tense fast-paced

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

Alright, I’ll cut to the chase here, I hate this book and it is personal. As someone who’s parent died of cancer and then was told I should read this to ‘gain insight’ (what) on what my own mother went through (John green is just some guy he hasn’t had cancer?? why would he know what it’s like and why do we hail this book as THE cancer book)… Yeah, no thanks.
Buut, outside of like, the traumaporn, what is there to like about this book? why do people love it so much?? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Terminal illness, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Antisemitism, Ableism, and Chronic illness

thebelovedreadingnook's review

dark funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical trauma, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Ableism and Chronic illness

kearneth's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-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

3.5

This book, while I guess being cliche consider I am a teenage girl, was something that truly made me feel and connect with the characters, something I really struggle with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cancer, and Chronic illness

aliveandnotlovingit's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense 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? N/A

3.0

tragically beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Terminal illness, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual content, Vomit, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Medical trauma, and Ableism

ak97x's review

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Ableism, Addiction, and Death

mirandyli's review

emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I remember reading this book in high school and loving it. Now that I'm older, I no longer understand the John Green hype.

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Content Warnings

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

crowbarsoda's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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

2.75

This book has kind of solidified the way i feel about John Green, he’s a great author in ways i can never be so i can’t hate on him for that - however all of his books are the same to me with the same types of tropes just tweaked a little. i feel like in this book specifically he just used big words to use big words and i would catch myself generally skipping over the huge blocks of text of Augustus going on one of his spiels - which would end up not mattering to the story anyways and was always there just to establish that he’s a certified “Deep Guy™️” felt a little pretentious and honestly a little disappointing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Body horror, Death, and Chronic illness

Minor: Child death, Grief, Ableism, and Confinement

stuck_in_a_good_book's review

emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Death, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Alcoholism and Ableism

Minor: Child death