Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Ocalić syna by Lucinda Berry

6 reviews

princess_marie's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

paperkindle's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-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

This is a difficult book to review because of the subject. I felt his mother downplayed a lot of what he did. Saying things like "Noah’s case was the least serious. He was like the kid in treatment for smoking pot a few times surrounded by kids who shot heroin." And "Their (the girls) lives weren’t going to be ruined forever. They just weren’t. But, the world wouldn’t be satisfied until they’d annihilated him. He was more of a victim than those girls" SA has trauma on everyone, whether you're a kid or an adult. The ending explained a lot about Noah, I didn't see it coming. 

TW: rape, sexual assault, suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts, suicide, cancer, grief, violence, pedophilia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child death, Drug use, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Rape and Vomit

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-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

0.5

Hey, quick question. What the fuck was this??

The mom was so fucking insufferable, oh my god. It’s “yes my son did something terrible but can you PLEASE get over it?” every other sentence. I feel like this book tried very hard to garner support and sympathy for pedophiles, even making light of the molestation and that does not sit right with me. Perhaps I’m a bit of an extremist but I do think they should all d*e 🤭 btw, I didn’t appreciate the twist. The dad being a secret pedophile when he could have just been normal and against pedophilia and utterly disgusted with his child? Lame and he should have k*lled himself too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Animal cruelty and Cancer

This entire book is about a pedophile, features a lot of brushing off/under reacting of the abuse, and almost victim blaming tbh.

a_coop's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Bullying and Cancer

nabaraditi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

 This book is tense, emotional. I was crying all the way through (more than I did while reading A little life). This book isn’t about the crime that’s committed. It’s about the what the family of the offender goes through. 

I feel this could be applied to any family whose one member is intersex or homosexual or has a mental illness. 

This book is also about how society reacts to offenders. But doesn’t the intensity of the crime/ the act, the impact of the act on the victims count? I think it should. But unfortunately law doesn’t take that into consideration. 

This book is also about

suicide. We as a society thinks black and white in terms of people who don’t want to live any longer. We’d prefer to lock them up than to let them die. But if you think about it, what is the point of them being locked up? Is their quality of life improving by that? Why don’t we have a right to decide whether we want to continue living or not? Why is it okay to force people to continue when forcing and restraint and generally considered wrong things to do?

I feel torn about this tbh 

Sometimes I wonder these things and I liked that the author has spoken about them 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Suicide, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

Minor: Cancer and Violence

shazzalovesnovels's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

I can't rate this painful book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Pedophilia, and Rape

Minor: Cancer, Rape, and Sexual violence