Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Six Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by Tess Sharpe

58 reviews

pau_line's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

Nachdem ich das Buch schon vor einer ganzen Weile beendet habe, hier noch die Rezension:

Ich mochte das Buch echt gerne. Ich hatte tatsächlich ein bisschen was anderes erwartet und war positiv überrascht, wie viel Tiefgang das Buch hatte. 
Ich hätte mir mehr ennemies to lovers Anteil gewünscht, weil ich dem Buch nicht abnehmen konnte, dass die beiden Protagonistinnen sich nicht mögen. Sie sind einfach nur die ganze Zeit umeinander herumgeschlichen.
Ich mochte jedoch die Dynamik der beiden. Auch der Aufbau des Buchs hat mir ganz gut gefallen... es hätte mehr Chemisty ✨️ für mich persönlich sein können...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Outing

Moderate: Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

farfetched's review

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book. I picked it up, thinking 'oh, a cute little sapphic romance, I'll read it then I'll be done with it'. I was fooled. In my defence, it was not really made clear from the outer cover that this cute little sapphic romance was going to tear me apart, in the best kind of way. This is a book about sapphic desire and romance. It is childhood friends to lovers. And it's fanatic at that. But it's also about grief, trauma, and learning to heal. Being there for someone when they need it. Leaning on people. 

This book genuinely blew me away. The writing is fantastic, the turns of phrase are great, I love the way it's structured, going between past and present and referencing things in ways that feel natural, rather than dropping hints. 

Fair to say, I will be keeping this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, and Infidelity

sofias_reading_obsession's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Body horror, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

yellowflowermai's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

4.75

This is one of my new favourite books. It’s only flaw is its lack of an epilogue, but otherwise I LOVE it.

I was hesitant to read it at first because I found the title cringy and I feared it was going to be a case of “author wants fanfic tropes for their ocs without realising fic works because readers already know the characters” AND BOY WAS I WRONG because if there’s something this book definitely has is full fledged, fully developed, 3 dimensional characters AND SO MORE MUCH ANGST THAN I EXPECTED WITH SUCH A CUTESY TITLE????

I cried so many times and I also highlighted literally half of the book because it was that good oh my god please read it you won’t regret it 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

handove's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Medical content

pau0704's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

volsungreads's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I think this would be a fantastic book if it wasn't marketed and described as a fluffy sapphic romance. It's a good book but not at all what I thought it would be from the tone of the blurb and the cover. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

piastri's review

4.0

i really wasn’t expecting to enjoy this as much as i did - i started reading with the expectations of a light, cute romance novel, but then pretty quickly was hit with a much more ‘real’ story of mental illness, grief, disability, mother-daughter relationships, etc.
tess sharpe has a lovely way of weaving together an interesting storyline with much darker themes and complicated characters, which i really enjoy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Ableism and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

stacy837's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

mariie_al's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.75

Okay, this was cute. Really cute. The good points are that the characters are very lovable and the prompt itself is very fun and lighthearted, although the story is sparkled with tragedies and talk of mental illness (that part was also excellent.) 
However, I’ve had some issues with the flashbacks and back and forth between past and present. Sometimes, it felt like the characters in the present hadn’t lived what they were supposed to have lived before which made them sometimes act incoherently. For example,

Rémi tells Tate that what she has with Penny is love. Why is she shocked when she had literally expressed it herself 5 months ago?

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I’m also a bit meh on the « enemies » (for lack of better words) to lovers. They seem to be bickering and annoyed at each other for like 2 chapters until that is erased and they’re suddenly clearly in love with each other. That was a bit disappointing. 
But all in all, that was a fun quick read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual harassment