Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Alas de sangre by Rebecca Yarros

334 reviews

octopus18's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny inspiring mysterious tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

krisiefishie27's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, War, and Classism

kellymoroney's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and War

amerid's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

4.5

This was my first real endeavor into fantasy, and it was a great one. However, I was not expecting how graphic the romance would get.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Xenophobia, and Abandonment

kat_a's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Alcohol

susie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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

4.0

I loved that a main character has a well depicted chronic illness. We see her pain but also see the strength she has developed to bear up under this pain. I cannot say how much I loved this!!!

I wish it were a closed door romance instead of steamy. And I also wish there were no curse words. The plot, world building, and character development carry the book and these elements aren’t needed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kdailyreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use

hiveofbees's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent

across_the_stars's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

My first review deleted, so here’s my condensed version. 

This book gave me flashbacks to many of the YA novels I enjoyed as a teen: Red Queen, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Divergent. It’s not a bad thing; I think it’s bringing in a new generation to this unique genere. But Violet and Xaden were pretty generic. 

Violet was “small, weak, had bad joints, pain” etc but none of it affected her. Chronic illness impacts people on a daily scale, but she never seemed to significantly fail. And we want to root for our main character, but she seemed unrealistic. Not to mention bonding with two dragons one who is the most powerful…. 

Xaden gave me a mix of Rhysand and Azriel from ACOTAR vibes with his shadow abilities. He hated Violet until it’s revealed that her dragon (who was even going to participate in the Threshing) is later to his. Then he decides to like her. But later in the book he says he’s liked her since he first saw her. 

There were some things as a reader I didn’t personally like: these “college age” adults read like teens and the swearing was a bit much. The cliche “bully wants to kill me” the moment he sees me isn’t one of my favorite tropes either. But overall it was a decent book and I’ll read the next two because I’m committed at this point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, and Sexual content

The chronic illness isn’t really given a name and it doesn’t seem to affect Violet whatsoever, especially after she trains with Xaden and those he assigned to help her. It felt unrealistic.

shabibi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail