Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw

16 reviews

dubious_little_creature's review

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Death, and Terminal illness

itsjusterika's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

Can't stop thinking about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Death, and Terminal illness

quinniantheduck'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death

Minor: Sexual content

tinytrashqueen'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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

annarbpollock's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

Oh this book is beautifully written. 4.25 because the characterization wasn't fully developed for the two main characters, but the characters around them were wonderfully built. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Death

mylovelybookstack's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-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

I literally cried every few page. Such well written, bittersweet book. I loved every moment with this one even though it was also a hard story. The storytelling was grounded and the dual pov was handled really skilfully. 

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Content Warnings

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

mayajouy's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

This book is such an important read. Every second of this book was amazing, the characters and the story. I learned so much through reading this book, it taught me things i didn’t know before. It showed me reality of the HIV Epidemic, and it wasn’t pretty. this book is so beautifully written, i will never stop talking about it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, and Homophobia

bruhbruh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Excrement, Grief, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

fenouil's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Alcohol, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Terminal illness, Homophobia, and Violence

jakemitton's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I went into this book thinking there was no chance it would be a five star read. After 50 pages I was still sure it couldn’t be a five star read but by the end there was no way for me to give it anything less then five stars. This book is beautiful, devastating and impossible to put down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death