Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson

7 reviews

kyliejade322's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Cancer

missgrangerr's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

One of the better or Swansons work. The alternating timelines are fascinating to read and the twist! Did not see it coming until a paragraph before it’s revealed. Ending was perfect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer

nailartklaudia's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Blood, Vomit, and Stalking

sarahna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

mothercoconuts's review

challenging 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? Yes

3.0

While this was fun….I’d say my issues were too much filler info on irrelevant characters and backgrounds, and after realizing what the book was really about, I didn’t get the point...like, why did we want to read about them? 
Harry was totally unnecessary. He did not need to be in the book at all! The book was about Alice (and Jake) even though it starts off making it seem like Harry is going to be the mc. Too much filler around Harry and his friend and a couple other totally irrelevant characters I could have done without. 
It just felt like a lot of random things thrown together to make a twisty story that ends WILDLY lol omg. I actually liked the very end for Alice as it was entertaining and overall satisfying but obviously pretty wild.  
Also, it boils down to a book about women who like older men (1 at least for sure bc of a traumatic upbringing) and 2

pedophiles, essentially, who can’t help but sleep with too-young girls!

soooo, cool? That doesn’t trigger me necessarily, but it just seems pointless once you get to the end. Like what was the actual point of the whole story?! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Pedophilia

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, Violence, and Kidnapping

christinesreads's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Vomit

ph_read_be's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Vomit