Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole

87 reviews

booksandgore's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Grief, Death, Chronic illness, and Child death

brandie_abbie19's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol

alexmall029's review

slow-paced

3.5

Didn't build the relationship enough, described the relationship but didnt let you feel it. Spent too much time describing their kisses and their sadness. Too too too many time jumps. Kind of overly religious. EPILOGUE SUCKED! Disappointing

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Content Warnings

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

kekla_08's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Grief

Moderate: Child death and Chronic illness

Minor: Death and Sexual content

aimeereadsss's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

 THIS BOOK BROKE MY HEART

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Cancer

lindsey22landrum's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

😭

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, and Death

You will be emotionally shattered, but it’s a great story!

bookishkamia26's review against another edition

emotional relaxing 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

Amazing read and I love how it was paced. Took me a long time bc I was in a slump but very emotional towards the end a great love story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

datgirllani's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

They captured my heart since the beginning of their story. Reading this as someone who will be turning 20 this year and has not been romantically involved with anyone in years, their love made my heart ache for the teenage loved I never achieved. Being so young, yet capable of loving someone so completely and genuinely and having that love returned to you tenfold is a rare treasure. I teared up in the beginning, cried in the middle, and bawled at the end. I will admit being a 19 year old, there were times I felt uncomfortable reading about their love at 15 and 17 as I no longer saw myself with the same young innocence as them. Thankfully it was never taken too far. There were at points, where I grew tired of reading how every kissed they shared felt or how it was achieved. Just me, yet again feeling uncomfortable about reading 17 year olds shove their tongues down each other’s throats. But I do understand their importance, hence the book’s name, “A Thousand Boy Kisses”. It did genuinely bother me how cold hearted Rune was towards his papa, though I fully understood his hurt, I also understood that his father was ultimately not responsible for his job’s decisions and could not throw his source of income away to let his son stay with his girlfriend. *spoiler* I was extremely happy when Rune opened his heart back up to him. *spoiler* Admittedly, I was sad that Rune died so young, I wished he lived longer but I had a hunch he would never live a long life after Poppy died. He loved her too much to be away from her so long. This was a sad, but good read. A story of two young souls, who shared a love for each other that people spend their entire lifetime searching for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual content and Cursing

chesneisanchez's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Cancer

heatherbrt's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

Have a large box of tissues ready. This book may break you. I don’t think I’ve ever cried this much or so hard over a book in my life. A beautiful, but heart wrenching story that I’ll never forget.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Grief, Child death, and Terminal illness