Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

54 reviews

ivybaggs's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

it’s beautiful and heartbreaking and it was like some parts and quotes i have highlighted i’ve never related to them so much and it’s weird to know there was someone who wrote what i felt. 
marin is this complicated character that you don’t know how to feel about but you want her to feel okay again and then the twist and everything i wasn’t expecting it I love you! stomach dropped and i was like oh god that no it couldn’t make sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol and Cancer

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Alcohol, and Blood

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Suicide

eligru's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

4.5

Wow, this made me cry so hard. I loved the second half.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Minor: Blood, Cancer, and Chronic illness

onespicyrat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Death

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Medical content, and Sexual content

my_weird_bookish_heart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Death, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Cancer

lollyr's review

emotional reflective sad slow-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? Yes

5.0

Beautiful and painful story. The writing punch Marin's grief right to the guts. It's a quick and emotional read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Mental illness, and Cancer

callumnova's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Toxic relationship

chloemarinar's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Cancer

honeyhistory103's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

A beautiful, short, sad story with a hopeful ending. This book is an intimate experience of grief and depression - in her acknowledgements, LaCour mentions that she lost her grandfather. You can feel the deep, well-known emotions that such an event leaves on a person throughout the story. I enjoyed the way LaCour wrote the experience of depression and panic attacks without making them about Having Depression or Having A Panic Attack.

I had gone into this book expecting a bit more of a plot, and perhaps that is what left me feeling slightly frustrated by the slowness of the story. It was still a nice read, but it sometimes teetered on the edge of being too slow. I did enjoy the way that Marin's relationships to Mabel and her family were resolved - it felt realistic, and wasn't tied with a bow for the sake of a happy ending. By letting things be bittersweet at the very end, the entire story was enhanced. However, it was a bit of a slog to get there, and I found myself worried that there would be only bitter up until about 10 pages out from the end of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide