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Apaixonei-me Pela Esperança by Lancali

11 reviews

leafilys's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Self harm

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mkr_08's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicide, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

kmarr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

4.0

Heartbreaking story about love and growth and death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

bri__'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

This was very slow, but I understand that it needed to be slow for the depth of the characters to be sufficient. I cried towards the end. The writing is beautiful, but felt overly quotable at times. I also found that the characters didn't speak their age, and it was never actually specified how old they were. It was difficult to understand the situation when travelling between timelines and povs, which made the structure quite messy. Please check content warnings, this book is very heavy with dark topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

addie_b's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is about a person named Sam, Sam and their friends who live in the hospital, they all have different illnesses and problems within their lives.  Sam isn't like most people, Sam isn't necessarily a person either. This book made me cry more than five times, it explains the problems all the friends are having while Sam explains their own, and if you relate to certain people in the book it hurts even more. It's hard to explain how much it hurts to read this, you form a connection with the characters  then lose them all in the 410 pages of this book. I really love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

ava_books's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, and Medical content

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

amethystandherbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

This book left me sobbing so many times, even from just the first line.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, and Medical content

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

gothmiku's review against another edition

Right book wrong time for me reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Eating disorder, Infertility, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism and Alcohol

donatio's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

I cried my eyes out in the first chapter and it didn't get much better after that, but I still recommend this to everyone.
I loved the writing style even if there were a few little things I didn't think logical, but in the end they don't matter, because the story and its characters, which I fell in love with, are just so much bigger. 
I especially loved the story's resolution, it was an answer to all the questions asked through out this book and it gave me reason. 
Maybe the story wasn't perfect but it was beautiful and it was raw and I don't believe that words can express how much this books means to me. It wasn't about a hero/heroine, it was about all the questions I asked myself so many times and it's another book that gave me answers. 
Before reading, though, you definitely should check out the content/trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer

cassie12_21's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Prepare to fucking CRY! This book was emotionally devastating in a good way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Blood, Abandonment, and Alcohol