Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

34 reviews

knockoffrainbow's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Sexism, Dementia, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Medical content

bladelikesbooks's review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.0

A sapphic romance spanning a few decades where childhood sweethearts get a second chance at their love after having separate families. 

Before reading this, I fell in love with the cover and I did originally think it was going to be about 3 different love stories rather than one couple through their lives but I loved that it was that. This was an incredibly emotional story and the ending absolutely destroyed my soul. The illustrations were so beautiful too. I’d love to see more from these authors!

Tropes - Friends To Lovers; Second Chance Romance 

Rep - Bisexual (MC); Black (MC/SC/BGCs); Pansexual (MC); Plus Size (MC); POC (MC); Queer (MC)

TWs/CWs - Child Birth; Cussing; Death; Dementia; Divorce; Domestic Violence; Forced Marriage; Homophobia; Infidelity; Lesbophobia; Pregnancy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Dementia and Death

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Vomit, Cursing, and Pregnancy

violet_pages's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Dementia

Moderate: Biphobia, Outing, Death, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual content, War, Misogyny, and Medical content

softgalaxy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Stunning graphic novel. Lesbian grandmothers for the win!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Dementia, Lesbophobia, and Pregnancy

lidia710's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Death and Infidelity

mnerd63's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Dementia

alyoops's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Outing, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Dementia, Infidelity, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy

wardenred's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

There are so many various love equations and none of them are wrong.

I'm really, really glad I got the Jackpot Edition. Because I loved the main story and deeply appreciated the whole "it's never too late to turn your life around and be happy" theme, but at the same time, for a story covering several decades, it felt somewhat... rushed? Like, outside of several event sequences, most of the time the narrative just told me what happened, not how it happened. There were all those gaps that begged to be filled.

And then I got to the end of the book and there were all those neat little snippets by various authors that did fill all those gaps. Little slice-of-life bits focusing precisely on all the how's, fleshing out the characters and the relationships between them. All those bits truly made the book shine for me. I wish they could be spread out throughout the story.

Also, the art is so gorgeous and so vibrant, and the bittersweet ending was beautiful! <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Dementia

thecatconstellation's review

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Lesbophobia, Dementia, and Homophobia

Minor: War

seekittyread's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

Cute concept, but not really my thing. The story read very simply and didn't really draw me in. Also the focus on medicalized delivery was unfortunate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Dementia, and Medical content