Reviews tagging Cancer

Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn

7 reviews

xaerache's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Drug use, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

Minor: Animal death, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Cancer, and Eating disorder

izypup's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Child death, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Alcohol, Grief, and Vomit

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Suicide, Rape, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Incest, Injury/injury detail, Lesbophobia, Torture, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, and Kidnapping

mergwenthur's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

2.0

This book was a pretty easy read - easy as in I got through it quickly. 

The actual storyline was....interesting. I started off with mix feelings about the mc but towards the end of the book tbh, I didn't like her at all. 

By the time you realised who might have committed the murders it was like okay can we get on with it, a lil bit of a twist but also an unsurprising twist.

Honestly this whole book was a bit of a traumatic mess, in a bad way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gaslighting, Drug use, Death, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Child abuse, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Grief

rebeccajben's review against another edition

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

0.5

I genuinely hated this book I would not have read this if Sofia didn’t annotate it for me. Tbh her annotations were what got me through. I’m terrible at predictions but I guessed the plot so damn quick and the mediocre twist at the end was not enough to redeem this even a little bit. Reading this was so deeply unpleasant and I felt sick the whole time lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Torture

eliwal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Homophobia

Minor: Cursing and Alcohol

mlarick's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.5

definitely recommend checking out trigger warnings!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Murder, Emotional abuse, Child death, Child abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content, Sexism, Misogyny, Cancer, Bullying, Body shaming, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

geetswrites's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.75

Phenomenal read. Gripping, twisting, piercing. The interweaving of the mystery/thriller elements and Camille's life, family and history was stellar. I've fallen in love with the way Gillian Flynn writes women, their complicated messiness, their individualism, their darknesses. I guessed the ending, or rather the answer to the mystery, fairly early on, but the point of the book was never that in the first place. The way Flynn keeps up the push and pull among the characters, the intrigue and the overwhelming feeling of impending doom throughout was especially masterful. The foreshadowing was just the right amount of eerie, innocuous where it needed to be for revelatory moments to feel especially satisfying, and glaring where the ominous realities needed to be spotlighted.

Camille's relationships— with her mother, with Amma, with side characters like Curry and Richard and John, but most importantly with herself— will stay with me for a long, long time. There are hauntingly relatable moments throughout, and for all its extreme severity, the core of the story is rooted in perfectly believable awfulness. The exploration of motherhood, daughterhood and selfhood as intertwined, bitter experiences supplemented by all the gruesome, unflinching imagery was revolting, painful and positively brilliant.

I can't possibly fit everything I think and feel about this book into this review, so I hope it suffices to say that I'm now completely enamoured by Flynn's writing, characters and thematic choices. Everything else she's ever written is immediately making it to the top of my TBR list. What an author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Cancer, Fatphobia, Gore, and Homophobia