Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

37 reviews

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

an interesting concept with a fun plot and characters. full of greek mythology. but the ending was expected and boring

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

mlatt's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Rape

abb00's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Gore, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Genocide, Torture, and Chronic illness

anitra2319's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Genocide, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual harassment

aelinfeyrebryce's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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

5.0

”’I was born knowing how to do three things - how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you.’’”

I can’t get over how much I love this book. I wasn’t expecting to love it this much because I thought parts of the plot were going to be predictable. It wasn’t until Athena’s betrayal that I realised how much I was enthralled!

I didn’t predict any of the plots regarding the Aegis throughout the book, only the Apollo storyline and what I thought would be the Wrath storyline. However, this book just subverted my every expectation and had me kicking myself for not realising things sooner. 10/10 would recommend this book to anyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Misogyny, War, and Blood

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Torture

katiegisondi's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Chronic illness, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child abuse

reader_in_the_meadow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was awesome!

I loved it soooooi much. The story was perfectly laid out and captivated me from the beginning to the end. 
I also liked the writing and stirytelling wgich weren't to complicated, so it was easy to completely focus on the story itself.
You also don't have to be that much of a greek mythology nerd, as I am, to understand the things mentioned in this book, but some knowledge before reading is good.

I still need to warn everyone about the trigger warnings, because there are some hard ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

frog777's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

sweyra's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Torture, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Medical content, Kidnapping, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Chronic illness, Child death, Child abuse, Cancer, Bullying, and Blood

Minor: Vomit

sauljr7's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Trigger warning: rape
 Lore was an interesting read to say the least booktok loves lore but it was hard for me to get invested until the last 100 or so pages the multiple twist were wonderful and it was more inclusive than other books I’ve read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Gore, and Suicide attempt