Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Mil Beijos de Garoto by Tillie Cole

45 reviews

tinypotato21's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.5

It was a really good book and story - It left me crying, but I have to deduct half a point for being a bit repetitive when it talks about how Rune and Poppy act around one another. Definitely read this.
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melike_k's review against another edition

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

5.0

I absolutely loved this book and as promised it made me cry multiple times. I loved watching their relationship and the rawness of the storyline. 

The only minor complaint that I have is that characters names are overused and sometimes it makes the story feel a little disjointed. 

Overall though, it's a brilliant book about a difficult topic that I highly recommend anyone read. 
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awaldon1's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

You can see it coming and it still breaks your heart.
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booksandgore's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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brandie_abbie19's review against another edition

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emotional 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? No

4.0

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readyforit's review against another edition

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

2.0

2⭐️2💧
Why is it that in every YA book that gets popular one of the MC
dies?
I expected to be sad. I didn’t expect for these teenagers to be depressed and serious about everything for the ENTIRE BOOK. There is no levity to balance out the morosity anywhere in the entire 13 hours of audiobook. Teenagers still laugh and joke through the pain, in fact I’d argue they mostly use humor to cope! There was no realism in this book whatsoever. Of course poppy would be a good enough cellist to play in Carnegie hall. Of course rune would be a good enough amateur photographer to get into NYU tisch. 

Wtf was with the epilogue?? Rune
lives about another ten years after poppy dies and then dies suddenly and we find out he never moved on or even kissed another girl bc he promised poppy?? He wakes up in their version of heaven and is only thinking of seeing her again, not of the family and friends he left behind. HUH
This book has so much religious imagery in it. Lots of talk about heaven and everything happening for a reason. 

Poppy’s narrator was pretty good, but rune’s narrator mostly yelled at me during his chapters. 

Lastly, why did they choose the
cancer notorious for its very good survival rate? Why not pick a more deadly cancer if she was going to die young anyway?


I had a hunch I should’ve DNFed at 20% and 50% and I was right.
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kekla_08's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.0

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jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

This book broke me.  I cried my eyes out towards the end reading the letters within.  

I loved the unique concept of keeping a jar of one thousand kisses as it allowed a unique way to record memories of their young love. 
It dealt so well with themes of grief throughout. Both familial and romantic and it honestly hurt my heart these characters didn’t get their happy ending as they were made for each other but I cannot complain with how well versed this whole book was. 
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hollymileham's review against another edition

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emotional sad 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

2.25

i am flabbergasted. i was told this was a really good and emotional read... where?? idk if im being very insensitive rn but this book did not give what needed to be gave it was so pretentious it was cracking me up
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alyssacullen's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful sad fast-paced
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5.0

I have never cried so hard in a book, I was sobbing by page 100
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