Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

American Royals by Katharine McGee

66 reviews

novella42's review against another edition

emotional medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Sexism, Cancer, Classism, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcohol, Infidelity, and Bullying

saoirse_the_thespian's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

American Royals is truly a masterpiece and is so underhyped. The world is created so beautiful with a plot that will have you staying up way too late to read. A great read if you want YA with royalty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism and Bullying

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Cancer, and Stalking

Minor: Death of parent

justabitnerdy's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.25

I liked the book overall. My only complaint is

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that the kings cancer was diagnosed so unexpectedly, from experience of having a family member with lung cancer I think it would have been better to have some signs of him getting sick beforehand.

but otherwise I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent

mawest's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Cancer

If you like royal talk, you’ll like this (even if late, like me). I have so many thoughts. At times, I was mad and other times very hopeful. Now, on to book 2!!

kagamine's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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: Cancer, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Moderate: Classism

brinkley's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, and Alcohol

books_with_haley's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Blood, and Death

kassidyreads's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Sexism, Bullying, Infidelity, and Misogyny

jupitermond's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

1.5

I wish the author would have stayed in her lane and written a silly little, tropey romance novel. Instead, she decided to do some incredibly lazy, half-baked and inconsistent world-building, paired it with Baby's First Political Commentary and the silliest twist ending I've encountered in a while; all of it equating to two less-than-halves of a novel. Also, the conceit of the

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social-climbing

plot of one of the four POV characters would have been so much more believable if the characters had been adults. Instead, we're supposed to believe that

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she has been manoeuvering to marry the prince since she was FOURTEEN.

The only good thing I can say for this book is that I did finish it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Alcohol, and Bullying

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, and Emotional abuse

thebookpaiges's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death and Bullying