Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

8 reviews

mamadeb615's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

5.0

I absolutely loved this book!  I think it was a BookTok recommendation, but honestly don’t remember.  It moves along at a good pace and has a wide range of mostly likeable characters.  It’s very well written and moves at a good pace. Every time I took a break from it, I couldn’t wait to go back and find out what happened next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Terminal illness

bertrandlm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, and Car accident

isabell's review against another edition

challenging hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Physical abuse, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Vomit, and Dementia

stephcooke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Dementia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

theonlybaillie's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Dementia, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

gabgeh's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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

1.5

I would not recommend this book if high-quality writing is a priority for you. A somewhat cute, sad, self-insert story with very few character motivators and very little plot development. Tolerable only because I was reading it for a book club and would be able to trash-talk it after reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Dementia, and Death of parent

annaledbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Dementia

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

Almost up to the ending of this novel, I thought I was going to hate the book. The events in the last few chapters were incredibly upsetting and made me feel really badly for the main character, April. I thought the book was going to have a sad ending and I loved April so much that I didn’t want that for her. However, the ending is the most perfect ending that could exist for this book. I cried, I laughed — I thought about my own life and the people that I have kept and those who I’ve had to let go. The reasons that we choose people to be in our lives has a lot to do with how we feel our family is supposed to be. Family is not who is related to you by blood, but it’s those people who come into your life and are unwilling to leave you, even when life gets messy, as it undoubtedly will. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, and Abandonment