Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole

42 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

readyforit's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

2⭐️2💧
Why is it that in every YA book that gets popular one of the MC

dies?

I expected to be sad. I didn’t expect for these teenagers to be depressed and serious about everything for the ENTIRE BOOK. There is no levity to balance out the morosity anywhere in the entire 13 hours of audiobook. Teenagers still laugh and joke through the pain, in fact I’d argue they mostly use humor to cope! There was no realism in this book whatsoever. Of course poppy would be a good enough cellist to play in Carnegie hall. Of course rune would be a good enough amateur photographer to get into NYU tisch. 

Wtf was with the epilogue?? Rune

lives about another ten years after poppy dies and then dies suddenly and we find out he never moved on or even kissed another girl bc he promised poppy?? He wakes up in their version of heaven and is only thinking of seeing her again, not of the family and friends he left behind. HUH

This book has so much religious imagery in it. Lots of talk about heaven and everything happening for a reason. 

Poppy’s narrator was pretty good, but rune’s narrator mostly yelled at me during his chapters. 

Lastly, why did they choose the

cancer notorious for its very good survival rate? Why not pick a more deadly cancer if she was going to die young anyway?

I had a hunch I should’ve DNFed at 20% and 50% and I was right.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, and Cancer

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

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

This book broke me.  I cried my eyes out towards the end reading the letters within.  

I loved the unique concept of keeping a jar of one thousand kisses as it allowed a unique way to record memories of their young love. 
It dealt so well with themes of grief throughout. Both familial and romantic and it honestly hurt my heart these characters didn’t get their happy ending as they were made for each other but I cannot complain with how well versed this whole book was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Child death, Death, and Chronic illness

hollymileham's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.25

i am flabbergasted. i was told this was a really good and emotional read... where?? idk if im being very insensitive rn but this book did not give what needed to be gave it was so pretentious it was cracking me up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Child death

alyssacullen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

I have never cried so hard in a book, I was sobbing by page 100

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Content Warnings

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

chekwube's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective 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

4.75

Very emotional. You will cry a lot while reading this book because their love is so pure and wholesome. 
Also it says a lot about enjoying your life while you have it and making the most of every experience. Also of just being happy and positive, seeing the beauty in life while it’s still there.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Cancer

dagmarvt's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

eve_smiles1's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-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

5.0

Be prepared to cry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Chronic illness