Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

9 reviews

helfire124's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

krystyne88's review against another edition

• Too much info dropping. Lots of telling instead of showing
• Plot dragged too much
• Was not invested in the characters
• I felt throat punched with themes of death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

amandamz's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Fatphobia, Suicide, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

iamaprettyflower's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book had so many unexpected twists that it had me screaming into a pillow (in a good way!). I really loved that it explained the history behind all of the Egypt references as I would have been completely lost otherwise. I really enjoyed it 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cyndi1966's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

cwalden's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Body shaming

itsharrietrj's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

abigailp's review

reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

eternalparadox's review

adventurous emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Instead of her usual switching POVS, Picoult takes this book through two stories, two choices, from one POV. I never found this confusing.  Per the usual, there is a lot of content throughout that pertains to the characters jobs and interests- this time those are Egyptology and quantum physics. While this text could be expansive at times, I found it really interesting and, as always, wonderfully steeped in metaphor. 

Picoult’s Book of Two Ways will get you thinking about your life and your choices and leave you rooting for everyone. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I finished it. Once again, Picoult’s newest book seems to top her last. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Sexual content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Child death, Eating disorder, and Blood

The book is sort of about death and the afterlife, but not in a fearsome or gruesome way