Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

One Day by David Nicholls

21 reviews

dearbhlanoonan's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility and Sexual content

zara89's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, and Car accident

matchareader's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

I absolutely loved the tv show on Netflix, so I decided to give the book a go. I was actually quite disappointed. I found the characters unlikable at first, pretentious and annoying. But I still read it till the end. I discovered how the series was loyal to the book. But each time the main characters interacted, I just didn’t see any chemistry or reason for them to like each other. But the individual development of both characters was interesting. Sadly, I just couldn’t help rolling my eyes at times when they got together. 
For those who hesitate between the book and the adaptation, I’d say go for the latter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Vomit

emilyseebold's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

hjb_128's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

poppyskills's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

misswendy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

nineinchnails's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny 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

4.5

this feels a lot like a couple of my all-time favourite books i've ever read which is probably part of why i enjoyed this so much but it isn't perfect. just to get this out of the way, it was annoyingly obvious that this was written by a man at parts - emma was mostly well written (i kept forgetting she was written by a man) but this showed a lot in the way that the other women were written in this book. just straight up caricatures. it also felt like it would've done numbers on tumblr (for the same reasons The Fault in Our Stars did) but despite all of that i really loved this novel. i loved the characters - they were complex and flawed but they felt so real and it made it even more frustrating to watch them constantly fuck up. the ending hit me like a truck and i'm so glad i picked this up. this is (almost) everything i wanted Talking at Night to be! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Excrement, and Vomit

risemini's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

pkc's review against another edition

funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness and Vomit