Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

13 reviews

irinalast's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Dislike what is likely how most people would think, feel, and act when the worst happens. No one is a hero, not much hope in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, and War

ddclarke's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

3.25

A literary novel written to sound like a literary novel. Really love the concept and it was pulled off, but without anything that really stood out to me.

Likely hurt by having watched the movie first, which was very faithful and left me little to discover in the pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, War, and Classism

mlewis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Gore, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Racism

lukests's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Classism

jackbifrost's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

kah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, and War

Minor: Racism and Classism

nuclear war

bootsmom3's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Animal death and Excrement

nee_cole's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual content

franknforter's review against another edition

reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

There were some things here that had the potential to be interesting - the "guess who’s coming to dinner" scenario with the white people who desperately want to believe they're not racist (or that they don't SEEM racist, these characters are preoccupied with seeming) but resent the class/race divisions not going the way they would expect, the mundane weirdness of living through a disaster, some of the things with the animals. However, the prose is extremely dense, full of short sentences, weird metaphors and unpleasant sexuality, and in the end it just kind of felt like a chore to read it. It also drove me insane that they spent all that time complaining about not knowing anything but refused to listen to the radio.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Gore, Racism, Excrement, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Islamophobia, and War

There is a scene involving a person’s teeth falling out.