marionlundqvist's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Death, Cancer, Medical content, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Vomit, and Pregnancy
datskira's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, and Cancer
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Alcohol, Vomit, Abandonment, and Pregnancy
Minor: Blood, Child death, and Car accident
chris_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
*and privilege, but that's incidental.
Graphic: Medical content and Cancer
Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Abandonment
Minor: Terminal illness, Vomit, and Blood
thatswhatshanread's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I had no idea what to expect going into this book. Well, that’s a lie. I knew it was a love story, and I’d heard it would make me cry.
But I did not anticipate in the slightest, why it would make me cry. Or what kind of love story I’d feel very deeply apart of.
You very easily slip in to this story. It reads like any other, until it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, you simply must keep reading to see where it leads. Love, heartbreak, celebration, tragedy, compromise, friendship. Life, changing without approval, no matter how much you plan for it not to. Life, out of your hands.
“In Five Years” is as comforting as it is devastating. It’s both a tight, warm hug and a fierce, bitter wind. It answers the questions you’ve never even thought about before, and asks of you things you’ve never had to give.
Give it all. The characters in this novel deserve it.
Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Vomit
Moderate: Pregnancy, Infertility, Blood, Body horror, Sexual content, Child death, and Alcohol
Minor: Antisemitism and Infidelity
persikan_05's review
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Infertility, Medical content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Alcohol, Abandonment, Abortion, and Grief
milenasbooknook's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
Graphic: Chronic illness, Cancer, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Cursing, Pregnancy, and Sexual content
Minor: Infertility, Vomit, Blood, and Medical trauma
2-3 inappropriate scenes the reader may wish to skipbetsygrace's review
- 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
4.5
Spoiler
it was a reminder of how important it is to love people hard while they are still here. I’ve lost several relatives to cancer, and it sucks every time.What a beautifully written story.
Graphic: Cancer and Grief
Moderate: Classism, Terminal illness, and Vomit
Minor: Blood, Alcohol, Child death, and Infertility
mlthomas234's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Spoiler
Really interesting premise, but doesn’t follow through. It’s not really about the romance at all so much as it is about the friendship— which is pretty epic and almost a romance in and of itself (nearly sapphic). If this was framed around the friendship from the start, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. There’s also something very basic in the details that are called out (the brand of clothes worn or when xyz was bought) that detracts from the mysticism of the premise and overall tone of something that could be very magical. I did feel compelled to finish it to know what happened, but was less and less intrigued as I got closer to the end.Graphic: Cancer
Moderate: Vomit, Blood, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Grief, and Death